Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 7, sentence 10
The nymphs of the lake and the mountain stream will look out for us, longing for our coming, and ask, 'Where are our friends of the mountain?
Who acts: nymphs, our · What happens: look out, long, come, ask, be · To what, where: friends
This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (nymphs, our), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 nymphs | det |
| 2 | nymphs | nymph | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 look | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 lake | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 lake | det |
| 5 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 nymphs | nmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 stream | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 stream | det |
| 8 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 stream | compound |
| 9 | stream | stream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 lake | conj |
| 10 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 look | aux |
| 11 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 12 | out | out | ADP | _ | 11 look | compound:prt |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 us | case |
| 14 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 look | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 longing | punct |
| 16 | longing | long | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 look | advcl |
| 17 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 19 coming | mark |
| 18 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 coming | nsubj |
| 19 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 longing | advcl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 ask | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 ask | cc |
| 22 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 look | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 friends | punct |
| 24 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 28 friends | punct |
| 25 | Where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 28 friends | advmod |
| 26 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 friends | cop |
| 27 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 friends | nmod:poss |
| 28 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 ask | obl |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 mountain | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 mountain | det |
| 31 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 friends | nmod |
| 32 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 11 look | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look out | future | the nymphs of the lake and the mountain stream | for us | vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent for we=Theme | ||||
| 2 | long | gerund | the nymphs of the lake and the mountain stream not said here | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 3 | come | gerund | our | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | ask speech: ask | infinitive | the nymphs of the lake and the mountain stream not said here | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | is a | present | our friends | of the mountain; our nmod:poss | tree rules |
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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