Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 7, sentence 22
The old soldier, who had listened in surprise to this singular conversation, could contain himself no longer. "
Who acts: old soldier · What happens: listen, contain · To what, where: soldier
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 (old soldier), 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 | 3 soldier | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 soldier | amod |
| 3 | soldier | soldier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 contain | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 listened | punct |
| 5 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 listened | nsubj |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 listened | aux |
| 7 | listened | listen | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 soldier | acl:relcl |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 surprise | case |
| 9 | surprise | surprise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 listened | obl |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 conversation | case |
| 11 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 conversation | det |
| 12 | singular | singular | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 conversation | amod |
| 13 | conversation | conversation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 listened | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 soldier | punct |
| 15 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 contain | aux |
| 16 | contain | contain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 17 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 16 contain | obj |
| 18 | no | no | ADV | _ | 19 longer | advmod |
| 19 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 16 contain | advmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 contain | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 contain | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | listen | past · perfect | the old soldier | to this singular conversation; in surprise | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in surprise=Theme | ||||
| 2 | contain | could | the old soldier | soldier | long property | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot himself=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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