Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 10, sentence 50
They were held to be unconquerable, and mighty magicians.
What happens: hold, be · To what, where: size
This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 held | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 held | aux:pass |
| 3 | held | hold | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 unconquerable | mark |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 unconquerable | cop |
| 6 | unconquerable | unconquerable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 held | xcomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 magicians | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 magicians | cc |
| 9 | mighty | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 magicians | amod |
| 10 | magicians | magician | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 held | obl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 held | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hold | past · passive | size | mighty magicians obl | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | to-infinitive | unconquerable property | tree rules |
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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