Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 4, sentence 39
The Countess turned to the sketch in the arbour, remarking, "We were sitting thus, when Karl was summoned to join his regiment at the breaking out of the last war between France and Germany.
Who acts: Countess, We · What happens: turn, remark, sit, summon, join · To what, where: arbour, Karl, regiment, breaking · 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 (Countess, We), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Countess | det |
| 2 | Countess | Countess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 turned | nsubj |
| 3 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 sketch | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 sketch | det |
| 6 | sketch | sketch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 turned | obl |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 arbour | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 arbour | det |
| 9 | arbour | arbour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 turned | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 remarking | punct |
| 11 | remarking | remark | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 turned | advcl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 sitting | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 sitting | punct |
| 14 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 sitting | nsubj |
| 15 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 sitting | aux |
| 16 | sitting | sit | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 remarking | conj |
| 17 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 16 sitting | advmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 summoned | punct |
| 19 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 22 summoned | advmod |
| 20 | Karl | Karl | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 summoned | nsubj |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 summoned | aux:pass |
| 22 | summoned | summon | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 turned | conj |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 join | mark |
| 24 | join | join | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 summoned | xcomp |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 regiment | nmod:poss |
| 26 | regiment | regiment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 join | obj |
| 27 | at | at | ADP | _ | 29 breaking | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 breaking | det |
| 29 | breaking | breaking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 join | obl |
| 30 | out | out | ADP | _ | 34 war | case |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 war | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 war | det |
| 33 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 war | amod |
| 34 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 join | obl |
| 35 | between | between | ADP | _ | 36 France | case |
| 36 | France | France | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 war | nmod |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 Germany | cc |
| 38 | Germany | Germany | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 France | conj |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 turned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | past | the Countess | the arbour | to the sketch | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Theme to sketch=Source in arbour=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | remark speech: assert | gerund | the Countess not said here | vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | sit in a quote | past · progressive | We | thus property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | summon in a quote | past · passive | Karl | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | join in a quote | to-infinitive | Karl's regiment | the breaking | out the last war between France and Germany | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent regiment=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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