Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 5, sentence 102
Fearfully raged the storm in the tops of the firs and beeches, and drove dust and gravel in wild whirls up the mountain path, on which now a wanderer, with hair wildly blowing in the wind and fluttering garments, descended.
Who acts: hair · What happens: rage, drive, whirl up, blow, flutter, descend · To what, where: storm, tops, dust, mountain path, wind, garments
This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hair), 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 | Fearfully | fearfully | ADV | _ | 2 raged | advmod |
| 2 | raged | rage | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 storm | det |
| 4 | storm | storm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 raged | obj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 tops | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 tops | det |
| 7 | tops | top | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 raged | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 firs | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 firs | det |
| 10 | firs | fir | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 tops | nmod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 beeches | cc |
| 12 | beeches | beech | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 firs | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 drove | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 drove | cc |
| 15 | drove | drive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 raged | conj |
| 16 | dust | dust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 drove | obj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 gravel | cc |
| 18 | gravel | gravel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 dust | conj |
| 19 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 21 whirls | mark |
| 20 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 whirls | amod |
| 21 | whirls | whirl | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 drove | advcl |
| 22 | up | up | ADP | _ | 21 whirls | compound:prt |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 path | det |
| 24 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 path | compound |
| 25 | path | path | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 whirls | obj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 wanderer | punct |
| 27 | on | on | ADP | _ | 31 wanderer | case |
| 28 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 31 wanderer | nsubj |
| 29 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 31 wanderer | advmod |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 wanderer | det |
| 31 | wanderer | wanderer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 whirls | conj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 hair | punct |
| 33 | with | with | ADP | _ | 34 hair | case |
| 34 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 wanderer | conj |
| 35 | wildly | wildly | ADV | _ | 36 blowing | advmod |
| 36 | blowing | blow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 34 hair | acl |
| 37 | in | in | ADP | _ | 39 wind | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 wind | det |
| 39 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 blowing | obl |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 fluttering | cc |
| 41 | fluttering | flutter | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 36 blowing | conj |
| 42 | garments | garment | NOUN | Number=Plur | 41 fluttering | obj |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 descended | punct |
| 44 | descended | descend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 31 wanderer | parataxis |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 raged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rage | past | the storm | the tops of the firs and beeches | fearfully property | vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location storm=Theme | |||
| 2 | drive | past | dust and gravel | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme dust=Trajectory | |||||
| 3 | whirl up | present | the mountain path | a wanderer and hair conj | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent path=Theme | ||||
| 4 | blow | gerund | hair not said here | the wind | wildly property | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient | |||
| 5 | flutter | gerund | hair not said here | garments | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location garment=Theme | ||||
| 6 | descend | participle | vn meander-47.7-1 «NP V»: agent=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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