Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 4, sentence 44
We were in Switzerland at the time of the mobilization of the German army, and hastening to obey the call, we repaired to Berlin, where we took leave of one another, never again all to meet in this world.
Who acts: We, Switzerland · What happens: be, hasten, obey, repair, take, meet · To what, where: Switzerland, call, Berlin, leave, world, German army
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 (We, Switzerland), 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 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 Switzerland | nsubj |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 Switzerland | cop |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 Switzerland | case |
| 4 | Switzerland | Switzerland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 repaired | nsubj |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 time | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 time | det |
| 7 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 Switzerland | nmod |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 mobilization | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 mobilization | det |
| 10 | mobilization | mobilization | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 time | nmod |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 army | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 army | det |
| 13 | German | German | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 army | amod |
| 14 | army | army | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 mobilization | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 hastening | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 hastening | cc |
| 17 | hastening | hasten | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 Switzerland | conj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 obey | mark |
| 19 | obey | obey | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 hastening | xcomp |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 call | det |
| 21 | call | call | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 obey | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 Switzerland | punct |
| 23 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 repaired | nsubj |
| 24 | repaired | repair | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 Berlin | case |
| 26 | Berlin | Berlin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 repaired | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 took | punct |
| 28 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 30 took | advmod |
| 29 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 30 took | nsubj |
| 30 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 repaired | conj |
| 31 | leave | leave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 took | obj |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 one | case |
| 33 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 31 leave | appos |
| 34 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 33 one | fixed |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 meet | punct |
| 36 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 37 again | advmod |
| 37 | again | again | ADV | _ | 40 meet | advmod |
| 38 | all | all | ADV | _ | 40 meet | advmod |
| 39 | to | to | PART | _ | 40 meet | mark |
| 40 | meet | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 took | conj |
| 41 | in | in | ADP | _ | 43 world | case |
| 42 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 43 world | det |
| 43 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 meet | obl |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 24 repaired | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | We | Switzerland | time | tree rules | |||
| 2 | hasten | gerund | We not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | obey | to-infinitive | We not said here | the call | vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent call=Theme | ||||
| 4 | repair | past | Switzerland | Berlin | we nsubj | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent | |||
| 5 | take | past | we | leave | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leave=Theme | ||||
| 6 | meet | to-infinitive | we not said here | this world | again; never | all property | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||
| 7 | mobilize | the German army | nom mobilization «act 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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