Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 7, sentence 91
Soon after that event, a blue flame was seen every night between eleven and twelve on this heap of scoria, which a black man endeavoured to keep burning until midnight.
Who acts: black man · What happens: see, endeavour, keep, burn · To what, where: blue flame, heap
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 (black man), 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 | Soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 10 seen | advmod |
| 2 | after | after | ADP | _ | 4 event | case |
| 3 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 event | det |
| 4 | event | event | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 seen | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 event | punct |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 flame | det |
| 7 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 flame | amod |
| 8 | flame | flame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 seen | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 seen | aux:pass |
| 10 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 11 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 night | det |
| 12 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 seen | obl:unmarked |
| 13 | between | between | ADP | _ | 14 eleven | case |
| 14 | eleven | eleven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 seen | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 twelve | cc |
| 16 | twelve | twelve | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 eleven | conj |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 heap | case |
| 18 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 19 heap | det |
| 19 | heap | heap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 seen | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 scoria | case |
| 21 | scoria | scoria | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 heap | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 endeavoured | punct |
| 23 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 27 endeavoured | obj |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 man | det |
| 25 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 man | amod |
| 26 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 endeavoured | nsubj |
| 27 | endeavoured | endeavour | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 heap | acl:relcl |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 keep | mark |
| 29 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 endeavoured | xcomp |
| 30 | burning | burn | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 29 keep | xcomp |
| 31 | until | until | ADP | _ | 32 midnight | case |
| 32 | midnight | midnight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 burning | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 seen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past · passive | a blue flame | this heap of scoria | after that event; night | between eleven; soon property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus | ||
| 2 | endeavour | past | a black man | this heap of scoria | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | keep | to-infinitive | a black man not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | burn | gerund | a black man not said here | midnight | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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