Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 7, sentence 67
With considerable effort they made their way through the rank weeds and thorns, and reached a high portal, fallen in on one side.
Who acts: curiosity · What happens: make, reach, fall · To what, where: way, rank weeds, high portal, one side
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 (curiosity), 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 | With | with | ADP | _ | 3 effort | case |
| 2 | considerable | considerable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 effort | amod |
| 3 | effort | effort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 made | obl |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 made | nsubj |
| 5 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 way | nmod:poss |
| 7 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 made | obj |
| 8 | through | through | ADP | _ | 11 weeds | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 weeds | det |
| 10 | rank | rank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 weeds | compound |
| 11 | weeds | weed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 made | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 thorns | cc |
| 13 | thorns | thorn | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 weeds | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 reached | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 reached | cc |
| 16 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 made | conj |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 portal | det |
| 18 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 portal | amod |
| 19 | portal | portal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 reached | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 fallen | punct |
| 21 | fallen | fall | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 portal | acl |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 side | case |
| 23 | on | on | ADP | _ | 25 side | case |
| 24 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 25 side | nummod |
| 25 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 fallen | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | curiosity | curiosity's way | the rank weeds and thorns | with considerable effort | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset way=Product | ||
| 2 | reach | past | curiosity not said here | a high portal | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent portal=Theme | ||||
| 3 | fall | participle | a high portal not said here | one side | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in side=Location |
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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