Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 10, sentence 69
They raise the song of triumph and march to meet the royal conqueror, who leans upon his spear, and looks upon his advancing army without going forward to receive it.
Who acts: tribes, royal conqueror, triumph · What happens: raise, meet, lean, look, advance, go · To what, where: song, royal conqueror, spear, conqueror
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 (tribes, royal conqueror, triumph), 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 | 2 raise | nsubj |
| 2 | raise | raise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 song | det |
| 4 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 raise | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 triumph | case |
| 6 | triumph | triumph | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 song | nmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 march | cc |
| 8 | march | march | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 triumph | conj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 meet | mark |
| 10 | meet | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 raise | advcl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 conqueror | det |
| 12 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 conqueror | amod |
| 13 | conqueror | conqueror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 meet | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 leans | punct |
| 15 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 leans | nsubj |
| 16 | leans | lean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 conqueror | acl:relcl |
| 17 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 19 spear | case |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 spear | nmod:poss |
| 19 | spear | spear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 leans | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 looks | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 looks | cc |
| 22 | looks | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 raise | parataxis |
| 23 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 26 army | case |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 army | nmod:poss |
| 25 | advancing | advance | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 26 army | amod |
| 26 | army | army | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 looks | obl |
| 27 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 28 going | mark |
| 28 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 22 looks | advcl |
| 29 | forward | forward | ADV | _ | 28 going | advmod |
| 30 | to | to | PART | _ | 31 receive | mark |
| 31 | receive | receive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 going | xcomp |
| 32 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 receive | obj |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 raise | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | raise | present | tribes = tribe | the song of triumph and march | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent song=Theme | ||||
| 2 | meet | to-infinitive | tribes = tribe not said here | the royal conqueror | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent conqueror=Co-Agent | ||||
| 3 | lean | present | the royal conqueror | enemy's spear | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon spear=Location | ||||
| 4 | look | present | upon enemy's advancing army | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent upon army=Theme | |||||
| 5 | advance | gerund | vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 6 | go | gerund | forward property | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 7 | receive | to-infinitive | conqueror | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||||
| 8 | sing | triumph and march | nom song «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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