Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 10, sentence 81
In silence they gather the ashes in the sacred urn, lay the shield on the ground, the urn upon it, and his armour above it.
Who acts: flames · What happens: gather, lay · To what, where: ashes, silence, shield, ground
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 (flames), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 silence | case |
| 2 | silence | silence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gather | obl |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 gather | nsubj |
| 4 | gather | gather | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 ashes | det |
| 6 | ashes | ash | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 gather | obj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 urn | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 urn | det |
| 9 | sacred | sacred | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 urn | amod |
| 10 | urn | urn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gather | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 lay | punct |
| 12 | lay | lay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 gather | conj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 shield | det |
| 14 | shield | shield | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 lay | obj |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 ground | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 ground | det |
| 17 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 shield | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 urn | punct |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 urn | det |
| 20 | urn | urn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 shield | conj |
| 21 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 22 it | case |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 urn | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 armour | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 armour | cc |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 armour | nmod:poss |
| 26 | armour | armour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gather | obl |
| 27 | above | above | ADP | _ | 28 it | case |
| 28 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 armour | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 gather | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gather | present | flames = flame | the ashes | silence | in the sacred urn; king's armour above armour obl | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ash=Theme | ||
| 2 | lay | infinitive | flames = flame not said here | the shield and the urn upon urn | the ground | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent shield=Theme on ground=Destination |
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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