Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 7, sentence 135
In the dark mountain cave, on the hard, cold ground, kneels the silver-haired hermit Volkmar, and without before the entrance, by the image of the Virgin, Reinhilde, pale and trembling, is kneeling, in prayer.
What happens: kneel, tremble, image · To what, where: haired hermit, dark mountain cave, prayer, Virgin
This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 5 cave | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 cave | det |
| 3 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 cave | amod |
| 4 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 cave | compound |
| 5 | cave | cave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 kneels | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 ground | punct |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 ground | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 ground | det |
| 9 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 ground | amod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 hard | punct |
| 11 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 ground | amod |
| 12 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 cave | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 cave | punct |
| 14 | kneels | kneel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 hermit | det |
| 16 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 haired | compound |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 silver | punct |
| 18 | haired | haired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 hermit | amod |
| 19 | hermit | hermit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 kneels | obj |
| 20 | Volkmar | Volkmar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 hermit | appos |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 kneeling | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 kneeling | cc |
| 23 | without | without | ADP | _ | 26 entrance | case |
| 24 | before | before | ADP | _ | 26 entrance | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 entrance | det |
| 26 | entrance | entrance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 kneeling | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 image | punct |
| 28 | by | by | ADP | _ | 30 image | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 image | det |
| 30 | image | image | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 entrance | appos |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 Virgin | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 Virgin | det |
| 33 | Virgin | Virgin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 image | nmod |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 Reinhilde | punct |
| 35 | Reinhilde | Reinhilde | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 Virgin | conj |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 pale | punct |
| 37 | pale | pale | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 image | parataxis |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 trembling | cc |
| 39 | trembling | tremble | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 37 pale | conj |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 entrance | punct |
| 41 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 42 kneeling | aux |
| 42 | kneeling | kneel | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 kneels | advcl |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 prayer | punct |
| 44 | in | in | ADP | _ | 45 prayer | case |
| 45 | prayer | prayer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 kneeling | obl |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 kneels | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kneel | present | the haired hermit | the dark mountain cave and the hard cold ground | vn curtsey-40.3.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hermit=Topic | ||||
| 2 | tremble | gerund | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | kneel | present · progressive | prayer | without the entrance | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in prayer=Location | ||||
| 4 | image | the Virgin and Reinhilde | nom image «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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