Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 10, sentence 85

And they heaped rock on rock, and levelled whole hills to the plain to pile up the giant grave to a giant king, and called it the Hero's Grave.

Who acts: storms · What happens: heap, levell, pile up, call · To what, where: rock, whole hills, giant grave, grave · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (storms), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	3 heaped	cc
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 heaped	nsubj
3	heaped	heap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 heaped	obj
5	on	on	ADP	_	6 rock	case
6	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 heaped	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 levelled	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 levelled	cc
9	levelled	levell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 heaped	conj
10	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 hills	amod
11	hills	hill	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 levelled	obj
12	to	to	ADP	_	14 plain	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 plain	det
14	plain	plain	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 levelled	obl
15	to	to	PART	_	16 pile	mark
16	pile	pile	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 levelled	advcl
17	up	up	ADP	_	16 pile	compound:prt
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 grave	det
19	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 grave	amod
20	grave	grave	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 pile	obj
21	to	to	ADP	_	24 king	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 king	det
23	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 king	amod
24	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 pile	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 called	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 called	cc
27	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 heaped	conj
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 called	obj
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 Hero	det
30	Hero	Hero	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 Grave	nmod:poss
31	's	's	PART	_	30 Hero	case
32	Grave	Grave	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 called	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 heaped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	heap	past	storms = storm	rock	rock		vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent rock=Theme on rock=Destination
2	levell	past	storms = storm not said here	whole hills		to the plain	tree rules
3	pile up	to-infinitive	storms = storm not said here	the giant grave		to a giant king	vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP.theme V NP»: agent=Theme grave=Destination
4	call	past	storms = storm not said here	grave		the Hero's Grave obj	vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme grave=Result

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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🌲 Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 10, sentence 85

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 10, sentence 85