Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 7, sentence 40
Where Liutburga had dwelt in her grief was now his home; the crucifix before which she had knelt was his sanctuary, and henceforth he turned all his thoughts to God, and to the consolation of the sorrowing.
Who acts: Liutburga, grief, crucifix, Volkmar · What happens: dwell, be, kneel, turn, think, console · To what, where: home, Liutburga, sanctuary, thoughts, consolation, sorrowing
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, grief, crucifix, Volkmar), 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 | Where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 4 dwelt | advmod |
| 2 | Liutburga | Liutburga | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 dwelt | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 dwelt | aux |
| 4 | dwelt | dwell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 home | case |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 grief | nmod:poss |
| 7 | grief | grief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 home | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 home | cop |
| 9 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 home | advmod |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 home | nmod:poss |
| 11 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 dwelt | obl |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 sanctuary | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 crucifix | det |
| 14 | crucifix | crucifix | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 sanctuary | nsubj |
| 15 | before | before | ADP | _ | 16 which | case |
| 16 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 knelt | obl |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 knelt | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 knelt | aux |
| 19 | knelt | kneel | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 crucifix | acl:relcl |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 sanctuary | cop |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 sanctuary | nmod:poss |
| 22 | sanctuary | sanctuary | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 dwelt | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 turned | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 turned | cc |
| 25 | henceforth | henceforth | ADV | _ | 27 turned | advmod |
| 26 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 turned | nsubj |
| 27 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 dwelt | conj |
| 28 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 30 thoughts | det:predet |
| 29 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 thoughts | nmod:poss |
| 30 | thoughts | thought | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 turned | obj |
| 31 | to | to | ADP | _ | 32 God | case |
| 32 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 thoughts | nmod |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 consolation | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 consolation | cc |
| 35 | to | to | ADP | _ | 37 consolation | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 consolation | det |
| 37 | consolation | consolation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 turned | obl |
| 38 | of | of | ADP | _ | 40 sorrowing | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 sorrowing | det |
| 40 | sorrowing | sorrowing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 consolation | nmod |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 dwelt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dwell | past · perfect | Liutburga | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is | past | Liutburga's grief | Volkmar's home | now | Volkmar nmod:poss | tree rules | ||
| 3 | kneel | past · perfect · passive | Liutburga | before the crucifix | vn curtsey-40.3.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | ||||
| 4 | is a | past | the crucifix | Volkmar's sanctuary | Volkmar nmod:poss | tree rules | |||
| 5 | turn | past | Volkmar | Volkmar's thoughts | the consolation of the sorrowing | to God; henceforth property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent thought=Theme to consolation=Trajectory | ||
| 6 | think | Volkmar | to God | nom thought «cognition transitive»: poss=agent to=obl | |||||
| 7 | console | the sorrowing | nom consolation «feeling 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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