Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 10, sentence 70
He gives them a sign; they raise his helmet and loosen the coat of mail; and the hero sinks lifeless on his bloody shield.
Who acts: enemy, tribes, hero · What happens: give, raise, loosen, sink · To what, where: sign, tribes, helmet, coat, bloody shield
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 (enemy, tribes, hero), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 gives | nsubj |
| 2 | gives | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 gives | iobj |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 sign | det |
| 5 | sign | sign | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 gives | obj |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 8 raise | punct |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 raise | nsubj |
| 8 | raise | raise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 gives | parataxis |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 helmet | nmod:poss |
| 10 | helmet | helmet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 raise | obj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 loosen | cc |
| 12 | loosen | loosen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 raise | conj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 coat | det |
| 14 | coat | coat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 loosen | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 mail | case |
| 16 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 coat | nmod | ||
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 sinks | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 sinks | cc |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 hero | det |
| 20 | hero | hero | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 sinks | nsubj |
| 21 | sinks | sink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 gives | conj |
| 22 | lifeless | lifeless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 sinks | xcomp |
| 23 | on | on | ADP | _ | 26 shield | case |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 shield | nmod:poss |
| 25 | bloody | bloody | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 shield | amod |
| 26 | shield | shield | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 sinks | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 gives | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | present | enemy | a sign | tribes = tribe | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient sign=Theme | |||
| 2 | raise | present | tribes = tribe | enemy's helmet | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent helmet=Theme | ||||
| 3 | loosen | infinitive | tribes = tribe not said here | the coat of mail | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent coat=Patient | ||||
| 4 | sink | present | the hero | enemy's bloody shield | lifeless property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
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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