Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 12, sentence 86
He and his castle were inaccessible; frequently, when the inhabitants of the neighbourhood had united to storm his nest, he had sent them home with bleeding heads, and each time punished them by making worse disturbance than before.
Who acts: eagle · What happens: be, unite, storm, send, punish, make · To what, where: inhabitants, nest, worse disturbance
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 (eagle), 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 | 6 inaccessible | nsubj |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 castle | cc |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 castle | nmod:poss |
| 4 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 He | conj |
| 5 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 inaccessible | cop |
| 6 | inaccessible | inaccessible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 8 frequently | punct |
| 8 | frequently | frequently | ADV | _ | 6 inaccessible | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 united | punct |
| 10 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 17 united | mark |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 inhabitants | det |
| 12 | inhabitants | inhabitant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 united | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 neighbourhood | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 neighbourhood | det |
| 15 | neighbourhood | neighbourhood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 inhabitants | nmod |
| 16 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 united | aux |
| 17 | united | unite | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 inaccessible | parataxis |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 storm | mark |
| 19 | storm | storm | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 united | xcomp |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 nest | nmod:poss |
| 21 | nest | nest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 storm | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 sent | punct |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 sent | nsubj |
| 24 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 sent | aux |
| 25 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 inaccessible | conj |
| 26 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 sent | obj |
| 27 | home | home | ADV | _ | 25 sent | advmod |
| 28 | with | with | ADP | _ | 30 heads | case |
| 29 | bleeding | bleeding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 heads | compound |
| 30 | heads | head | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 sent | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 punished | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 punished | cc |
| 33 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 34 time | det |
| 34 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 punished | obl:unmarked |
| 35 | punished | punish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 inaccessible | conj |
| 36 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 punished | obj |
| 37 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 38 making | mark |
| 38 | making | make | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 35 punished | advcl |
| 39 | worse | bad | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 40 disturbance | amod |
| 40 | disturbance | disturbance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 making | obj |
| 41 | than | than | ADP | _ | 42 before | case |
| 42 | before | before | ADV | _ | 38 making | obl |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 inaccessible | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | eagle | frequently, inaccessible property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | unite | past · perfect · passive | the inhabitants of the neighbourhood | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | storm | to-infinitive | eagle's nest | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | send | past · perfect | eagle | inhabitants = inhabitant | with bleeding heads; home property | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | |||
| 5 | punish | participle | eagle not said here | inhabitants = inhabitant | time | vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient | |||
| 6 | make | gerund | eagle not said here | worse disturbance | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset disturbance=Product |
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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