Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 8, sentence 81
In the centre of this superb chamber stood a table of hematite; before it a silver chair, upon which the Dwarf-King seated himself, and commanded his companion also to sit down.
Who acts: Dwarf King · What happens: stand, seat, command, sit down · To what, where: table, centre, king, companion · 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 (Dwarf King), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 centre | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 centre | det |
| 3 | centre | centre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 stood | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 chamber | case |
| 5 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 chamber | det |
| 6 | superb | superb | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 chamber | amod |
| 7 | chamber | chamber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 centre | nmod |
| 8 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 table | det |
| 10 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 stood | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 hematite | case |
| 12 | hematite | hematite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 table | nmod |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 chair | punct |
| 14 | before | before | ADP | _ | 18 chair | case |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 chair | nsubj |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 chair | det |
| 17 | silver | silver | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 chair | amod |
| 18 | chair | chair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 stood | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 seated | punct |
| 20 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 21 which | case |
| 21 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 seated | obl |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 King | det |
| 23 | Dwarf | Dwarf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 King | compound |
| 24 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 23 Dwarf | punct |
| 25 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 seated | nsubj |
| 26 | seated | seat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 stood | conj |
| 27 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 26 seated | obj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 commanded | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 commanded | cc |
| 30 | commanded | command | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 stood | parataxis |
| 31 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 companion | nmod:poss |
| 32 | companion | companion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 commanded | obj |
| 33 | also | also | ADV | _ | 35 sit | advmod |
| 34 | to | to | PART | _ | 35 sit | mark |
| 35 | sit | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 commanded | advcl |
| 36 | down | down | ADP | _ | 35 sit | compound:prt |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | a table of hematite | the centre of this superb chamber | before a silver chair table | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent table=Theme in centre=Destination | |||
| 2 | seat | past | the Dwarf King | king | which obl | vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location himself=Value | |||
| 3 | command | past | king's companion | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.predicate»: agent=Agent companion=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | sit down | to-infinitive | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=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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