Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 4, sentence 22
"There is an endless primeval matter, I may say the Urkraft--first cause--of all things, which is scattered in countless atoms in eternal space.
Who acts: endless primeval matter, truth · What happens: be, say, scatter, cause · To what, where: Urkraft, cause, countless atoms, things · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (endless primeval matter, truth), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 is | punct |
| 2 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 is | expl |
| 3 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 say | advcl |
| 4 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 matter | det |
| 5 | endless | endless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 matter | amod |
| 6 | primeval | primeval | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 matter | compound |
| 7 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 is | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 is | punct |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 say | nsubj |
| 10 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 say | aux |
| 11 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Urkraft | det |
| 13 | Urkraft | Urkraft | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 say | obj |
| 14 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 16 cause | punct |
| 15 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 16 cause | advmod |
| 16 | cause | cause | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 say | parataxis |
| 17 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 20 things | punct |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 things | case |
| 19 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 20 things | det |
| 20 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 cause | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 scattered | punct |
| 22 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 scattered | nsubj:pass |
| 23 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 scattered | aux:pass |
| 24 | scattered | scatter | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 cause | acl |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 atoms | case |
| 26 | countless | countless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 atoms | amod |
| 27 | atoms | atom | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 scattered | obl |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 space | case |
| 29 | eternal | eternal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 space | amod |
| 30 | space | space | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 scattered | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 say | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be in a quote | present | a endless primeval matter | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | may | truth | the Urkraft | cause of all things parataxis | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent urkraft=Topic | |||
| 3 | scatter in a quote | present · passive | cause of all things | countless atoms | in eternal space | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in atom=Destination | |||
| 4 | cause in a quote | all things | nom cause «event transitive»: of=patient |
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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