Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 8, sentence 6
Merciful Heaven!" he cries, "hast thou heard our earnest petitions?"
Who acts: Kaiser, thou, our · What happens: cry, have, hear, petition · To what, where: earnest petitions
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 (Kaiser, thou, our), 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 | Merciful | Merciful | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 cries | vocative |
| 2 | Heaven | Heaven | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Merciful | flat |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Merciful | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 cries | punct |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 cries | nsubj |
| 6 | cries | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 hast | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 hast | punct |
| 9 | hast | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 cries | conj |
| 10 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 11 heard | nsubj |
| 11 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 hast | ccomp |
| 12 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 petitions | nmod:poss |
| 13 | earnest | earn | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 14 petitions | amod |
| 14 | petitions | petition | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 heard | obj |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 cries | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 cries | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express in a quote | present | Kaiser | Merciful vocative | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | have | present | Kaiser not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | hear | past | thou | our earnest petitions | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer petition=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | petition | our | nom petition «communication transitive»: poss=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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