Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 8, sentence 41
They were carried by demons through the air, and one heard their moanings of despair without the power to save them.
Who acts: demons, one · What happens: carry, hear, save · To what, where: warnings, air, moanings
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 (demons, one), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 carried | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 carried | aux:pass |
| 3 | carried | carry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 5 demons | case |
| 5 | demons | demon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 carried | obl |
| 6 | through | through | ADP | _ | 8 air | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 air | det |
| 8 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 carried | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 heard | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 heard | cc |
| 11 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 heard | nsubj |
| 12 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 carried | parataxis |
| 13 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 moanings | nmod:poss |
| 14 | moanings | moaning | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 heard | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 despair | case |
| 16 | despair | despair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 moanings | nmod |
| 17 | without | without | ADP | _ | 19 power | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 power | det |
| 19 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 heard | obl |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 save | mark |
| 21 | save | save | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 heard | advcl |
| 22 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 save | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 carried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carry | past · passive | demons | warnings = warning | the air | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | |||
| 2 | hear | past | one | warnings's moanings of despair | without the power | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer moaning=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | save | to-infinitive | one not said here | warnings = warning | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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