Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 8, sentence 44
Lost in devotional thoughts, hence without fear, he rode quietly along; an irresistible languor seized him and he fell asleep.
Who acts: rode, irresistible languor · What happens: lose, ride, seize, fall · To what, where: devotional thoughts, rode
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 (rode, irresistible languor), 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 | Lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 rode | advcl |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 thoughts | case |
| 3 | devotional | devotional | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 thoughts | amod |
| 4 | thoughts | thought | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Lost | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 fear | punct |
| 6 | hence | hence | ADV | _ | 8 fear | advmod |
| 7 | without | without | ADP | _ | 8 fear | case |
| 8 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 thoughts | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Lost | punct |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 rode | nsubj |
| 11 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | quietly | quietly | ADV | _ | 11 rode | advmod |
| 13 | along | along | ADV | _ | 11 rode | advmod |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 seized | punct |
| 15 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 languor | det |
| 16 | irresistible | irresistible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 languor | amod |
| 17 | languor | languor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 seized | nsubj |
| 18 | seized | seize | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 rode | parataxis |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 seized | obj |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 fell | cc |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 fell | nsubj |
| 22 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 seized | conj |
| 23 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 fell | xcomp |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 rode | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lose | participle | rode = road not said here | devotional thoughts and fear | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V PP.eventuality S_ING»: agent=Agent in thought=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | ride | past | rode = road | along, quietly property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | seize | past | a irresistible languor | rode = road | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 4 | fall | past | rode = road | asleep property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=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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