Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 4, sentence 83
"Oh! how shall I attempt to depict that dreadful night-scene among the dead and dying on the field of Mars la Tour?
Who acts: Samper, that · What happens: attempt, depict, scene, die · To what, where: field · 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 (Samper, that), 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 | _ | 7 attempt | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 7 attempt | discourse |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 attempt | advmod |
| 5 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 attempt | aux |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 attempt | nsubj |
| 7 | attempt | attempt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 depict | mark |
| 9 | depict | depict | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 attempt | xcomp |
| 10 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 scene | nsubj |
| 11 | dreadful | dreadful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 scene | amod |
| 12 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 scene | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 night | punct |
| 14 | scene | scene | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 depict | ccomp |
| 15 | among | among | ADP | _ | 17 dead | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 dead | det |
| 17 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 attempt | obl |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 dying | cc |
| 19 | dying | die | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 dead | conj |
| 20 | on | on | ADP | _ | 22 field | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 field | det |
| 22 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 attempt | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 Tour | case |
| 24 | Mars | Mars | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 Tour | compound |
| 25 | la | La | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 Tour | compound |
| 26 | Tour | Tour | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 field | nmod |
| 27 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 attempt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | attempt in a quote | shall | Samper Mr. = samper | the field of Mars la Tour | among the dead | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | depict not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | Samper Mr. = samper not said here | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | scene in a quote | that | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | die in a quote | gerund | Samper Mr. = samper not said here | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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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