Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 7, sentence 94
With heavy head resting on his arm, the Kaiser sits alone in the great hall of the Königsburg.
Who acts: heavy head, Kaiser · What happens: rest, sit · To what, where: arm, great hall
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 (heavy head, Kaiser), 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 | With | with | ADP | _ | 3 head | case |
| 2 | heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 head | amod |
| 3 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 sits | obl |
| 4 | resting | rest | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 head | acl |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 arm | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 arm | nmod:poss |
| 7 | arm | arm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 resting | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 head | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Kaiser | det |
| 10 | Kaiser | Kaiser | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 sits | nsubj |
| 11 | sits | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | alone | alone | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 sits | xcomp |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 hall | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 hall | det |
| 15 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 hall | amod |
| 16 | hall | hall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 sits | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 Königsburg | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Königsburg | det |
| 19 | Königsburg | Königsburg | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 hall | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 sits | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rest | gerund | heavy head not said here | Kaiser's arm | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on arm=Location | ||||
| 2 | sit | present | the Kaiser | the great hall of the Königsburg | with heavy head; alone property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in hall=Location |
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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