Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 12, sentence 46

Odin, or Wodan, was the god, too, of armies, and always went out from Walhalla at the head of his ghostly array, while his nine Walküren conducted the fallen heroes back to Walhalla.

Who acts: Odin, nine · What happens: be, go out, conduct, fall · To what, where: god, Walhalla, fallen heroes

This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Odin, nine), 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	Odin	Odin	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 god	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 Wodan	punct
3	or	or	CCONJ	_	4 Wodan	cc
4	Wodan	Wodan	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Odin	conj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Odin	punct
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 god	cop
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 god	det
8	god	god	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 too	punct
10	too	too	ADV	_	8 god	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 armies	punct
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 armies	case
13	armies	army	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 god	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 went	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 went	cc
16	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	17 went	advmod
17	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 god	parataxis
18	out	out	ADV	_	17 went	advmod
19	from	from	ADP	_	20 Walhalla	case
20	Walhalla	Walhalla	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 went	obl
21	at	at	ADP	_	23 head	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 head	det
23	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 went	obl
24	of	of	ADP	_	27 array	case
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 array	nmod:poss
26	ghostly	ghostly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 array	amod
27	array	array	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 head	nmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 conducted	punct
29	while	while	SCONJ	_	33 conducted	mark
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 nine	nmod:poss
31	nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	33 conducted	nsubj
32	Walküren	Walküren	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 conducted	nsubj
33	conducted	conduct	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 went	conj
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 heroes	det
35	fallen	fall	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	36 heroes	amod
36	heroes	hero	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 conducted	obj
37	back	back	ADV	_	33 conducted	advmod
38	to	to	ADP	_	39 Walhalla	case
39	Walhalla	Walhalla	PROPN	Number=Sing	37 back	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 god	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Odin or Wodan	the god and armies		armies conj	tree rules
2	go out	past			Walhalla	at the head of Walhalla's ghostly array; always, out property	vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	conduct	past	Walhalla's nine	the fallen heroes		Walküren nsubj	vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hero=Theme
4	fall	participle					vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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 12, sentence 46

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 12, sentence 46