Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 7, sentence 52
"Yonder, my son!" said the father, whose eye had swept exploringly the neighbourhood, pointing toward the near forest. "
Who acts: son, eye · What happens: say, sweep, point · To what, where: father, neighbourhood · 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 (son, eye), 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 | _ | 5 son | punct |
| 2 | Yonder | yonder | ADV | _ | 5 son | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Yonder | punct |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 son | nmod:poss |
| 5 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 6 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 son | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 son | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 father | det |
| 10 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 swept | punct |
| 12 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 13 eye | nmod:poss |
| 13 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 swept | nsubj |
| 14 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 swept | aux |
| 15 | swept | sweep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 father | acl:relcl |
| 16 | exploringly | exploringly | ADV | _ | 18 neighbourhood | advmod |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 neighbourhood | det |
| 18 | neighbourhood | neighbourhood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 swept | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 pointing | punct |
| 20 | pointing | point | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 swept | advcl |
| 21 | toward | toward | ADP | _ | 24 forest | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 forest | det |
| 23 | near | near | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 forest | amod |
| 24 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 pointing | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | my son | the father | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent father=Topic | ||||
| 2 | sweep | past · perfect | eye | the neighbourhood | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | point | gerund | eye not said here | toward the near forest | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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