Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 7, sentence 70
Approaching the spot, they were seized with trembling as they discovered an old crucifix in the wall, and, bending the knee, murmured a prayer.
Who acts: curiosity · What happens: approach, seize, discover, bend, murmur · To what, where: spot, curiosity, old crucifix, wall, knee, prayer
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 | Approaching | approach | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 seized | advcl |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 spot | det |
| 3 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Approaching | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Approaching | punct |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 seized | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 seized | aux:pass |
| 7 | seized | seize | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 trembling | case |
| 9 | trembling | trembling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 seized | obl |
| 10 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 12 discovered | mark |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 discovered | nsubj |
| 12 | discovered | discover | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 seized | advcl |
| 13 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 crucifix | det |
| 14 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 crucifix | amod |
| 15 | crucifix | crucifix | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 discovered | obj |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 wall | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 wall | det |
| 18 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 crucifix | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 bending | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 bending | cc |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 bending | punct |
| 22 | bending | bend | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 discovered | advcl |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 knee | det |
| 24 | knee | knee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 bending | obj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 murmured | punct |
| 26 | murmured | murmur | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 discovered | conj |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 prayer | det |
| 28 | prayer | prayer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 murmured | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 seized | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | approach | gerund | the spot | vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spot=Theme | |||||
| 2 | seize | past · passive | curiosity | with trembling | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 3 | discover | past | curiosity | a old crucifix | the wall | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crucifix=Topic | |||
| 4 | bend | gerund | curiosity not said here | the knee | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent knee=Material | ||||
| 5 | murmur speech: other | past | curiosity not said here | a prayer | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prayer=Topic |
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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