Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 10, sentence 58
The crashing of his sword, as it rent helmet of oak and coat of mail resounded above the wild cry of the combatants and the clashing of shields.
Who acts: crashing, combatants · What happens: rend, resound, cry · To what, where: helmet, coat, wild cry
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: who acts (crashing, combatants), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 crashing | det |
| 2 | crashing | crashing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 rent | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 sword | case |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 sword | nmod:poss |
| 5 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 crashing | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 rent | punct |
| 7 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 9 rent | mark |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 rent | nsubj |
| 9 | rent | rend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | helmet | helmet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 rent | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 oak | case |
| 12 | oak | oak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 helmet | nmod |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 coat | cc |
| 14 | coat | coat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 oak | conj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 mail | case |
| 16 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 coat | nmod | ||
| 17 | resounded | resound | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 coat | acl |
| 18 | above | above | ADP | _ | 21 cry | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 cry | det |
| 20 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 cry | amod |
| 21 | cry | cry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 resounded | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 combatants | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 combatants | det |
| 24 | combatants | combatant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 cry | nmod |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 clashing | cc |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 clashing | det |
| 27 | clashing | clashing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 combatants | conj |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 shields | case |
| 29 | shields | shield | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 clashing | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 rent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rend | past | the crashing of crashing's sword | helmet of oak and coat of mail | sword nsubj | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent helmet=Patient | |||
| 2 | resound | participle | coat of mail not said here | the wild cry of the combatants and the clashing of shields | vn sound_existence-47.4 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme above cry=Location | ||||
| 3 | cry | the combatants and the clashing of shields | nom cry «communication intransitive»: of=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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