Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 6, sentence 38
The good Weidemann was speechless with astonishment, but doubted not the truth of Fischersche's words.
Who acts: good Weidemann, Fischersche · What happens: be, not doubt, word · To what, where: truth
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 (good Weidemann, Fischersche), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Weidemann | det |
| 2 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Weidemann | amod |
| 3 | Weidemann | Weidemann | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 speechless | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 speechless | cop |
| 5 | speechless | speechless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 astonishment | case |
| 7 | astonishment | astonishment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 speechless | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 doubted | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 doubted | cc |
| 10 | doubted | doubt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 speechless | parataxis |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 doubted | advmod |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 truth | det |
| 13 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 doubted | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 words | case |
| 15 | Fischersche | Fischersche | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 words | nmod:poss |
| 16 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 15 Fischersche | case |
| 17 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 truth | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 speechless | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the good Weidemann | with astonishment; speechless property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not doubt | past | the truth of Fischersche's words | vn judgment-33.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent truth=Theme | |||||
| 3 | word | Fischersche | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=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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