Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 6, sentence 103
He lay himself, in steel armour, on a bench, but one arm was free from armour, and he felt a burning pain in it, and to his terror he observed a gaping wound, as from the blow of a sword, stretching from the shoulder to the elbow, and the warm blood trickled down.
Who acts: Graumännchen, one arm, warm blood, sword · What happens: lie, be, feel, burn, observe, gape · To what, where: Graumännchen, steel armour, armour, burning pain, pain, gaping wound
This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Graumännchen, one arm, warm blood, sword), 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 lay | nsubj |
| 2 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 2 lay | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 armour | punct |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 armour | case |
| 6 | steel | steel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 armour | compound |
| 7 | armour | armour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 lay | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 bench | punct |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 bench | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 bench | det |
| 11 | bench | bench | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 lay | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 free | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 free | cc |
| 14 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 arm | nummod |
| 15 | arm | arm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 free | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 free | cop |
| 17 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 lay | parataxis |
| 18 | from | from | ADP | _ | 19 armour | case |
| 19 | armour | armour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 free | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 felt | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 felt | cc |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 felt | nsubj |
| 23 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 lay | conj |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 pain | det |
| 25 | burning | burn | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 26 pain | amod |
| 26 | pain | pain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 felt | obj |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 it | case |
| 28 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 felt | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 observed | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 observed | cc |
| 31 | to | to | ADP | _ | 33 terror | case |
| 32 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 terror | nmod:poss |
| 33 | terror | terror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 observed | obl |
| 34 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 observed | nsubj |
| 35 | observed | observe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 lay | conj |
| 36 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 38 wound | det |
| 37 | gaping | gape | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 38 wound | amod |
| 38 | wound | wound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 observed | obj |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 blow | punct |
| 40 | as | as | ADP | _ | 43 blow | case |
| 41 | from | from | ADP | _ | 43 blow | case |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 blow | det |
| 43 | blow | blow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 observed | obl |
| 44 | of | of | ADP | _ | 46 sword | case |
| 45 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 46 sword | det |
| 46 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 blow | nmod |
| 47 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 48 stretching | punct |
| 48 | stretching | stretch | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 35 observed | advcl |
| 49 | from | from | ADP | _ | 51 shoulder | case |
| 50 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 51 shoulder | det |
| 51 | shoulder | shoulder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 stretching | obl |
| 52 | to | to | ADP | _ | 54 elbow | case |
| 53 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 54 elbow | det |
| 54 | elbow | elbow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 stretching | obl |
| 55 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 60 trickled | punct |
| 56 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 60 trickled | cc |
| 57 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 59 blood | det |
| 58 | warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 59 blood | amod |
| 59 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 60 trickled | nsubj |
| 60 | trickled | trickle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 lay | conj |
| 61 | down | down | ADP | _ | 60 trickled | compound:prt |
| 62 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 lay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie | past | Graumännchen | Graumännchen | steel armour | on a bench | vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location himself=Theme | ||
| 2 | is | past | one arm | armour | free property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | feel | past | Graumännchen | a burning pain | pain | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent pain=Theme in it=Location | |||
| 4 | burn | gerund | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 5 | observe | past | Graumännchen | a gaping wound | Graumännchen's terror | as the blow of a sword | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent wound=Topic to terror=Recipient | ||
| 6 | gape | gerund | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 7 | stretch | gerund | Graumännchen not said here | the shoulder | to the elbow | vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from shoulder=Location | |||
| 8 | trickle down | participle | the warm blood | vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source | |||||
| 9 | blow | a sword | nom blow «act intransitive»: of=agent |
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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