Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 8, sentence 58
"Jesus, Mary, and Joseph!" he cried, clapping his hands together above his head; "what do my eyes see?"
Who acts: Jesus, eyes · What happens: cry, clap, see · To what, where: hands, head · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Jesus, eyes), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Jesus | punct |
| 2 | Jesus | Jesus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 cried | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 Mary | punct |
| 4 | Mary | Mary | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Jesus | conj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Joseph | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 Joseph | cc |
| 7 | Joseph | Joseph | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Jesus | appos |
| 8 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 7 Joseph | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 Joseph | punct |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 cried | nsubj |
| 11 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 clapping | punct |
| 13 | clapping | clap | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 cried | advcl |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 hands | nmod:poss |
| 15 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 clapping | obj |
| 16 | together | together | ADV | _ | 13 clapping | advmod |
| 17 | above | above | ADP | _ | 19 head | case |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 head | nmod:poss |
| 19 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 clapping | obl |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 see | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 see | punct |
| 22 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 26 see | obj |
| 23 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 see | aux |
| 24 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 25 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 see | nsubj |
| 26 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 cried | conj |
| 27 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 26 see | punct |
| 28 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express | past | Jesus and Mary | farmer nsubj | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | clap | gerund | Jesus and Mary not said here | farmer's hands | farmer's head | together property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location hand=Theme | ||
| 3 | see in a quote | present · do-support | my eyes | what obj | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus |
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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