Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 4, sentence 89
"Colonel Karl Omnesky was among the wounded, and I hastened on to nurse him, as I hoped, to renewed life and vigour, but the moment I saw him all hope died for ever.
Who acts: Colonel Karl, Samper, moment · What happens: be, hasten on, hope, renew, see, die · To what, where: nurse, renewed life, Karl
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 (Colonel Karl, Samper, moment), 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 | _ | 3 Karl | punct |
| 2 | Colonel | Colonel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Karl | compound |
| 3 | Karl | Karl | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 wounded | nsubj |
| 4 | Omnesky | Omnesky | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Karl | flat |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 wounded | cop |
| 6 | among | among | ADP | _ | 8 wounded | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 wounded | det |
| 8 | wounded | wounded | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 hastened | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 hastened | cc |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 hastened | nsubj |
| 12 | hastened | hasten | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 wounded | parataxis |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 hastened | compound:prt |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 nurse | mark |
| 15 | nurse | nurse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 hastened | obl |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 nurse | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 hoped | punct |
| 18 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 20 hoped | mark |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 hoped | nsubj |
| 20 | hoped | hope | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 hastened | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 life | punct |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 life | case |
| 23 | renewed | renew | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 life | amod |
| 24 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 hoped | obj |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 vigour | cc |
| 26 | vigour | vigour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 life | conj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 died | punct |
| 28 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 36 died | cc |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 moment | det |
| 30 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 died | nsubj |
| 31 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 32 saw | nsubj |
| 32 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 moment | acl:relcl |
| 33 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 saw | obj |
| 34 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 35 hope | det |
| 35 | hope | hope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 died | nsubj |
| 36 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 wounded | conj |
| 37 | for | for | ADP | _ | 38 ever | case |
| 38 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 36 died | obl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 wounded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | past | Colonel Karl | wounded property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | hasten on in a quote | past | Samper Mr. = samper | nurse Karl | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | hope in a quote | past | Samper Mr. = samper | renewed life and vigour | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | renew in a quote | participle | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 5 | see in a quote | past | Samper Mr. = samper | Karl | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | die in a quote | past | the moment | all hope nsubj | vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for ever=Theme |
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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