Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 4, sentence 99
Abide with me when night is nigh, For without Thee I cannot die.'
Who acts: you, night, I · What happens: abide, be, not die
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, night, I), 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 | Abide | abide | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | with | with | ADP | _ | 3 me | case |
| 3 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 1 Abide | obl |
| 4 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 7 nigh | mark |
| 5 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 nigh | nsubj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 nigh | cop |
| 7 | nigh | nigh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Abide | advcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 die | punct |
| 9 | For | for | SCONJ | _ | 15 die | mark |
| 10 | without | without | ADP | _ | 11 Thee | case |
| 11 | Thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 15 die | obl |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 die | nsubj |
| 13 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 die | aux |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 die | advmod |
| 15 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Abide | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Abide | punct |
| 17 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 1 Abide | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | abide | imperative | you not said here | with me | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | present | night | nigh property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | not die | can | I | without Thee | 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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