Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 4, sentence 72
He came and insisted on our going with him, perfect strangers though we were, at once to his house; assuring us Mrs. Samper was expecting us, breakfast was being made ready, and our rooms awaited us.
Who acts: Samper, our, we, Mrs., rooms · What happens: come, insist, go, be, assure, expect · To what, where: perfect strangers, us, breakfast
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 (Samper, our, we, Mrs.), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 came | nsubj |
| 2 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 insisted | cc |
| 4 | insisted | insist | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 came | conj |
| 5 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 7 going | mark |
| 6 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 going | nsubj |
| 7 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 insisted | advcl |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 him | case |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 going | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 strangers | punct |
| 11 | perfect | perfect | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 strangers | amod |
| 12 | strangers | stranger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 came | obl |
| 13 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 21 house | mark |
| 14 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 house | nsubj |
| 15 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 house | cop |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 house | punct |
| 17 | at | at | ADP | _ | 18 once | case |
| 18 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 21 house | obl |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 house | case |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 house | nmod:poss |
| 21 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 strangers | advcl |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 assuring | punct |
| 23 | assuring | assure | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 came | advcl |
| 24 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 assuring | obj |
| 25 | Mrs. | Mrs. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 expecting | nsubj |
| 26 | Samper | Samper | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 Mrs. | flat |
| 27 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 expecting | aux |
| 28 | expecting | expect | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 23 assuring | conj |
| 29 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 28 expecting | obj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 made | punct |
| 31 | breakfast | breakfast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 made | nsubj:pass |
| 32 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 made | aux:pass |
| 33 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 34 made | aux:pass |
| 34 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 expecting | parataxis |
| 35 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 made | xcomp |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 awaited | punct |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 awaited | cc |
| 38 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 39 rooms | nmod:poss |
| 39 | rooms | room | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 awaited | nsubj |
| 40 | awaited | await | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 came | conj |
| 41 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 40 awaited | obj |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | Samper | perfect strangers | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | insist speech: other | participle | Samper not said here | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | go | gerund | our | with Samper | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with he=Beneficiary | ||||
| 4 | is | past | we | to Samper's house; Samper nmod:poss | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | assure | gerund | Samper not said here | us | vn advise-37.9 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent we=Recipient | ||||
| 6 | expect | past · progressive | Mrs. | us | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Theme | ||||
| 7 | make | past · passive | breakfast | ready property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | ||||
| 8 | await | past | our rooms | us | 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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