Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 8, sentence 64
He was not be dissuaded, and climbed to the summit, where he found a large level space, and began to dance and shout for joy, and called to his friend to climb up.
Who acts: son · What happens: not dissuade, climb, find, begin, dance, shout · To what, where: son, summit, large level space, friend · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (son), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 dissuaded | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 dissuaded | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 dissuaded | advmod |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 dissuaded | aux:pass |
| 5 | dissuaded | dissuade | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 climbed | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 climbed | cc |
| 8 | climbed | climb | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 dissuaded | parataxis |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 summit | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 summit | det |
| 11 | summit | summit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 climbed | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 found | punct |
| 13 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 15 found | advmod |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 found | nsubj |
| 15 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 climbed | conj |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 space | det |
| 17 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 space | amod |
| 18 | level | level | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 space | compound |
| 19 | space | space | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 found | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 began | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 began | cc |
| 22 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 climbed | conj |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 dance | mark |
| 24 | dance | dance | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 began | xcomp |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 shout | cc |
| 26 | shout | shout | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 dance | conj |
| 27 | for | for | ADP | _ | 28 joy | case |
| 28 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 shout | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 called | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 called | cc |
| 31 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 began | parataxis |
| 32 | to | to | ADP | _ | 34 friend | case |
| 33 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 friend | nmod:poss |
| 34 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 called | xcomp |
| 35 | to | to | PART | _ | 36 climb | mark |
| 36 | climb | climb | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 called | advcl |
| 37 | up | up | ADP | _ | 36 climb | compound:prt |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 dissuaded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not dissuade | past · passive | son | vn discourage-64.5 «NP V NP PP.eventuality»: subject=Beneficiary | |||||
| 2 | climb | past | the summit | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to summit=Destination | |||||
| 3 | find | past | son | a large level space | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent space=Topic | ||||
| 4 | begin | past | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||||
| 5 | dance | to-infinitive | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 6 | shout speech: express | infinitive | for joy | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S_INF»: agent=Agent for joy=Recipient | |||||
| 7 | call | participle | son's friend | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 8 | climb up | to-infinitive | vn run-51.3.2 «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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