Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 7, sentence 9
Desolate will be the spot that saw us so oft united in joy, lonely the moonlight that shone on our dance.
Who acts: Desolate spot, moonlight, our · What happens: desolate, be, see, shine, dance · To what, where: Desolate spot, us, oft united joy, dance
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 (Desolate spot, moonlight, our), 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 | Desolate | desolate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 spot | compound |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 spot | aux |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 spot | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 spot | det |
| 5 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 saw | nsubj |
| 7 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 spot | acl:relcl |
| 8 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 saw | obj |
| 9 | so | so | ADV | _ | 10 oft | advmod |
| 10 | oft | oft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 joy | amod |
| 11 | united | united | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 joy | amod |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 joy | case |
| 13 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 saw | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 lonely | punct |
| 15 | lonely | lonely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 joy | amod |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 moonlight | det |
| 17 | moonlight | moonlight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 lonely | nsubj |
| 18 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 shone | nsubj |
| 19 | shone | shine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 moonlight | acl:relcl |
| 20 | on | on | ADP | _ | 22 dance | case |
| 21 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 dance | nmod:poss |
| 22 | dance | dance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 shone | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 spot | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | desolate | infinitive | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | is a | future | the Desolate spot | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | see | past | the Desolate spot | us | oft united joy | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer we=Stimulus | |||
| 4 | shine | past | the moonlight | our dance | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on dance=Location | ||||
| 5 | dance | our | nom dance «communication transitive»: poss=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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