Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 4, sentence 93
"He was ready to go, awaiting eagerly the change to the better land, but full of a tender sympathy and sorrow for me and his unborn child.
Who acts: death · What happens: be, go, await · To what, where: change
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 (death), 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 ready | punct |
| 2 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 ready | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 ready | cop |
| 4 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 go | mark |
| 6 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 ready | xcomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 awaiting | punct |
| 8 | awaiting | await | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 ready | advcl |
| 9 | eagerly | eagerly | ADV | _ | 11 change | advmod |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 change | det |
| 11 | change | change | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 awaiting | obj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 land | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 land | det |
| 14 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 15 land | amod |
| 15 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 awaiting | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 full | punct |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 full | cc |
| 18 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 ready | conj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 sympathy | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 sympathy | det |
| 21 | tender | tender | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 sympathy | compound |
| 22 | sympathy | sympathy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 full | obl |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 sorrow | cc |
| 24 | sorrow | sorrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 sympathy | conj |
| 25 | for | for | ADP | _ | 26 me | case |
| 26 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 sympathy | nmod |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 child | cc |
| 28 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 child | nmod:poss |
| 29 | unborn | unborn | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 child | amod |
| 30 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 me | conj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 ready | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | past | death | ready property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | go in a quote | to-infinitive | death not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | await in a quote | gerund | death not said here | the change | to the better land | tree rules | |||
| 4 | be in a quote | death not said here | of a tender sympathy for me and sorrow | 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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