Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 7, sentence 16
"But only night gives us being comprehensible to men; the day confines us stiff and without form in our narrow house."
Who acts: night, day · What happens: give, be, confine · To what, where: us, narrow house · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (night, day), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 comprehensible | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 gives | cc |
| 3 | only | only | ADV | _ | 4 night | advmod |
| 4 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 gives | nsubj |
| 5 | gives | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 comprehensible | csubj |
| 6 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 gives | iobj |
| 7 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 comprehensible | cop |
| 8 | comprehensible | comprehensible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 men | case |
| 10 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 comprehensible | obl |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 confines | punct |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 day | det |
| 13 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 confines | nsubj |
| 14 | confines | confine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 comprehensible | conj |
| 15 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 confines | obj |
| 16 | stiff | stiff | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 confines | xcomp |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 form | cc |
| 18 | without | without | ADP | _ | 19 form | case |
| 19 | form | form | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 stiff | conj |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 house | case |
| 21 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 house | nmod:poss |
| 22 | narrow | narrow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 house | amod |
| 23 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 confines | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 comprehensible | punct |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 comprehensible | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give in a quote | present | night | us | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is in a quote | gerund | to men; comprehensible property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | confine in a quote | present | the day | us | our narrow house | stiff property | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent we=Theme in house=Destination |
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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