Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 6, sentence 107
They are storming again already, and our men are so weak from hunger and thirst, they can scarcely stand.
Who acts: squires, men · What happens: storm, be, stand · To what, where: hunger
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 (squires, men), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 storming | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 storming | aux |
| 3 | storming | storm | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | again | again | ADV | _ | 3 storming | advmod |
| 5 | already | already | ADV | _ | 3 storming | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 weak | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 weak | cc |
| 8 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 men | nmod:poss |
| 9 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 weak | nsubj |
| 10 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 weak | cop |
| 11 | so | so | ADV | _ | 12 weak | advmod |
| 12 | weak | weak | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 storming | parataxis |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 14 hunger | case |
| 14 | hunger | hunger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 weak | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 thirst | cc |
| 16 | thirst | thirst | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 hunger | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 stand | punct |
| 18 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 stand | nsubj |
| 19 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 stand | aux |
| 20 | scarcely | scarcely | ADV | _ | 21 stand | advmod |
| 21 | stand | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 weak | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 storming | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | storm | present · progressive | squires = squire | again | vn weather-57 «It V PP.theme» | ||||
| 2 | is | present | our men | hunger and thirst | weak property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | stand | can | squires = squire | scarcely property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=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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