Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 4, sentence 46
"You may imagine the difficulties of travelling in time of war, with soldiers being transported to active service, and the sick and wounded to hospitals; and we lost our luggage, consisting only of two trunks.
Who acts: You, we · What happens: imagine, transport, lose, consist · To what, where: difficulties, soldiers, active service, luggage, two trunks
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 (You, 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 imagine | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 imagine | nsubj |
| 3 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 imagine | aux |
| 4 | imagine | imagine | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 difficulties | det |
| 6 | difficulties | difficulty | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 imagine | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 travelling | case |
| 8 | travelling | travelling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 difficulties | nmod |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 time | case |
| 10 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 imagine | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 war | case |
| 12 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 time | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 transported | punct |
| 14 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 17 transported | mark |
| 15 | soldiers | soldier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 transported | nsubj |
| 16 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 transported | aux:pass |
| 17 | transported | transport | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 imagine | parataxis |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 service | case |
| 19 | active | active | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 service | amod |
| 20 | service | service | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 transported | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 sick | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 sick | cc |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 sick | det |
| 24 | sick | sick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 transported | parataxis |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 wounded | cc |
| 26 | wounded | wounded | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 sick | conj |
| 27 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 hospitals | case |
| 28 | hospitals | hospital | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 wounded | obl |
| 29 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 32 lost | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 lost | cc |
| 31 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 32 lost | nsubj |
| 32 | lost | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 imagine | parataxis |
| 33 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 luggage | nmod:poss |
| 34 | luggage | luggage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 lost | obj |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 consisting | punct |
| 36 | consisting | consist | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 32 lost | advcl |
| 37 | only | only | ADV | _ | 40 trunks | advmod |
| 38 | of | of | ADP | _ | 40 trunks | case |
| 39 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 40 trunks | nummod |
| 40 | trunks | trunk | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 consisting | obj |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 imagine | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | imagine in a quote | may | You | the difficulties of travelling | time | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot difficulty=Theme | |||
| 2 | transport in a quote | gerund · passive | soldiers | active service | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to service=Destination | ||||
| 3 | lose in a quote | past | we | our luggage | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent luggage=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | consist in a quote | gerund | we not said here | two trunks | tree rules |
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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