Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 7, sentence 25
She could no longer dwell among men, who understood not her grief, and sought the solitude of the forest.
Who acts: Liutburga, men · What happens: dwell, not understand, seek · To what, where: grief, solitude
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: who acts (Liutburga, 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 dwell | nsubj |
| 2 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 dwell | aux |
| 3 | no | no | ADV | _ | 4 longer | advmod |
| 4 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 5 dwell | advmod |
| 5 | dwell | dwell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | among | among | ADP | _ | 7 men | case |
| 7 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 dwell | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 understood | punct |
| 9 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 understood | nsubj |
| 10 | understood | understand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 men | acl:relcl |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 understood | advmod |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 grief | nmod:poss |
| 13 | grief | grief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 understood | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 sought | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 sought | cc |
| 16 | sought | seek | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 understood | conj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 solitude | det |
| 18 | solitude | solitude | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 sought | obj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 forest | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 forest | det |
| 21 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 solitude | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 dwell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dwell | could | Liutburga | among men; long property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme among man=Location | ||||
| 2 | not understand | past | men | Liutburga's grief | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer grief=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | seek | past | men not said here | the solitude of the forest | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent solitude=Theme |
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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