Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 4, sentence 85
His sympathy at this sight was awakened in proportion to his own melancholy.
What happens: awaken · To what, where: sympathy, proportion
This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 sympathy | nmod:poss |
| 2 | sympathy | sympathy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 awakened | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 sight | case |
| 4 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 sight | det |
| 5 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 sympathy | nmod |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 awakened | aux:pass |
| 7 | awakened | awaken | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 proportion | case |
| 9 | proportion | proportion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 awakened | obl |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 melancholy | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 melancholy | nmod:poss |
| 12 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 melancholy | amod |
| 13 | melancholy | melancholy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 proportion | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 awakened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | awaken | past · passive | ruin's sympathy at this sight | proportion to ruin's own melancholy | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Project Gutenberg book 74323 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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