Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 8, sentence 23
The herdsman was not sure whether he was awake or dreaming.
Who acts: herdsman, forest · What happens: not be, be, dream
This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (herdsman, forest), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 herdsman | det |
| 2 | herdsman | herdsman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sure | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 sure | cop |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 sure | advmod |
| 5 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 9 awake | mark |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 awake | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 awake | cop |
| 9 | awake | awake | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 sure | ccomp |
| 10 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 11 dreaming | cc |
| 11 | dreaming | dream | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 awake | conj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 sure | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | past | the herdsman | sure property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | past | forest | awake property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | dream | gerund | forest not said here | vn cognize-85 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=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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