Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 7, sentence 26
One day in her solitary ramble she discovered this rocky cave, and here she resolved to retire, and spend the remainder of her days in contemplation and devotion.
Who acts: Liutburga · What happens: discover, resolve, retire, spend, ramble · To what, where: rocky cave, remainder, contemplation
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), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 day | nummod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 discovered | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 ramble | case |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 ramble | nmod:poss |
| 5 | solitary | solitary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 ramble | amod |
| 6 | ramble | ramble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 day | nmod |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 discovered | nsubj |
| 8 | discovered | discover | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 cave | det |
| 10 | rocky | rocky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 cave | amod |
| 11 | cave | cave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 discovered | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 resolved | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 resolved | cc |
| 14 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 16 resolved | advmod |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 resolved | nsubj |
| 16 | resolved | resolve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 discovered | conj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 retire | mark |
| 18 | retire | retire | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 resolved | xcomp |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 spend | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 spend | cc |
| 21 | spend | spend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 retire | conj |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 remainder | det |
| 23 | remainder | remainder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 spend | obj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 days | case |
| 25 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 days | nmod:poss |
| 26 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 remainder | nmod |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 contemplation | case |
| 28 | contemplation | contemplation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 spend | obl |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 devotion | cc |
| 30 | devotion | devotion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 contemplation | conj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 discovered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | discover | past | Liutburga | this rocky cave | day | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cave=Topic | |||
| 2 | resolve | past | Liutburga | here | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | retire | to-infinitive | Liutburga not said here | vn resign-10.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | spend | infinitive | Liutburga not said here | the remainder of Liutburga's days | contemplation and devotion | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent remainder=Asset | |||
| 5 | ramble | Liutburga | nom ramble «act 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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