Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 7, sentence 8
When the rosy dawn awakes he will come who cut down our sisters; and as they are fallen, so must we.
Who acts: rosy dawn, voice · What happens: awake, come, cut down, fall · To what, where: sisters
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 (rosy dawn, voice), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 5 awakes | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 dawn | det |
| 3 | rosy | rosy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 dawn | amod |
| 4 | dawn | dawn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 awakes | nsubj |
| 5 | awakes | awake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 come | advcl |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 come | nsubj |
| 7 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 come | aux |
| 8 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 cut | nsubj |
| 10 | cut | cut | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 come | ccomp |
| 11 | down | down | ADP | _ | 10 cut | compound:prt |
| 12 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 sisters | nmod:poss |
| 13 | sisters | sister | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 cut | obj |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 fallen | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 fallen | cc |
| 16 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 19 fallen | mark |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 fallen | nsubj |
| 18 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 fallen | aux:pass |
| 19 | fallen | fall | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 come | advcl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 must | punct |
| 21 | so | so | ADV | _ | 22 must | advmod |
| 22 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 fallen | conj |
| 23 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 must | nsubj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | awake | present | the rosy dawn | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | come | future | voice | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | cut down | past | our sisters | who nsubj | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sister=Product | ||||
| 4 | fall | present · passive | sisters = sister | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: subject=Result |
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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