Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 5, sentence 72
His garments betrayed the greatest poverty, but his countenance was noble, and his thin locks were dripping with the rain.
Who acts: garments, countenance, thin locks · What happens: betray, be, drip · To what, where: greatest poverty
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 (garments, countenance, thin locks), 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 garments | nmod:poss |
| 2 | garments | garment | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 betrayed | nsubj |
| 3 | betrayed | betray | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 poverty | det |
| 5 | greatest | great | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 6 poverty | amod |
| 6 | poverty | poverty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 betrayed | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 noble | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 noble | cc |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 countenance | nmod:poss |
| 10 | countenance | countenance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 noble | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 noble | cop |
| 12 | noble | noble | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 betrayed | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 dripping | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 dripping | cc |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 locks | nmod:poss |
| 16 | thin | thin | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 locks | amod |
| 17 | locks | lock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 dripping | nsubj |
| 18 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 dripping | aux |
| 19 | dripping | drip | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 betrayed | advcl |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 rain | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 rain | det |
| 22 | rain | rain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 dripping | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 betrayed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | betray | past | darkness's garments | the greatest poverty | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | past | darkness's countenance | noble property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | drip | past · progressive | darkness's thin locks | with the rain | vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with rain=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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