Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 8, sentence 83
Still weeping, he mounted his horse, reached home, sank exhausted, laid himself down in his bed, from which he never rose; and in a fortnight he lay in his grave.
Who acts: name · What happens: weep, mount, reach, sink, exhaust, lay down · To what, where: horse, name, bed, grave
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 (name), 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 | Still | still | ADV | _ | 2 weeping | advmod |
| 2 | weeping | weep | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 mounted | advcl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 weeping | punct |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 mounted | nsubj |
| 5 | mounted | mount | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 horse | nmod:poss |
| 7 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 mounted | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 reached | punct |
| 9 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 mounted | conj |
| 10 | home | home | ADV | _ | 9 reached | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 sank | punct |
| 12 | sank | sink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 mounted | advcl |
| 13 | exhausted | exhaust | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 sank | xcomp |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 laid | punct |
| 15 | laid | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 mounted | parataxis |
| 16 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 15 laid | obj |
| 17 | down | down | ADP | _ | 15 laid | compound:prt |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 bed | case |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 bed | nmod:poss |
| 20 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 laid | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 rose | punct |
| 22 | from | from | ADP | _ | 23 which | case |
| 23 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 rose | obl |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 rose | nsubj |
| 25 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 26 rose | advmod |
| 26 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 laid | conj |
| 27 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 33 lay | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 lay | cc |
| 29 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 fortnight | case |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 fortnight | det |
| 31 | fortnight | fortnight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 lay | obl |
| 32 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 lay | nsubj |
| 33 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 mounted | parataxis |
| 34 | in | in | ADP | _ | 36 grave | case |
| 35 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 grave | nmod:poss |
| 36 | grave | grave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 lay | obl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 mounted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | weep | gerund | name not said here | still | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | mount | past | name | name's horse | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Patient | ||||
| 3 | reach | past | name not said here | home property | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | sink | past | name not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | exhaust | participle | name not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 6 | lay down | past | name | name's bed | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent himself=Theme in bed=Destination | ||||
| 7 | not rise | past | name | which obl | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from which=Initial_Location | ||||
| 8 | lie | past | name | name's grave | fortnight | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in grave=Location |
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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