Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 14, sentence 29
And the petition was heard, for midnight was hardly past before the knights left behind in the Burg had been overpowered by the strong arms of the avengers of innocence, and thrust in the deepest dungeon.
Who acts: strong arms · What happens: hear, be, leave behind, overpower · To what, where: petition, knights, Burg
This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (strong arms), 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 | _ | 5 heard | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 petition | det |
| 3 | petition | petition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 heard | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 heard | aux:pass |
| 5 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 past | punct |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 midnight | case |
| 8 | midnight | midnight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 past | obl |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 past | cop |
| 10 | hardly | hardly | ADV | _ | 11 past | advmod |
| 11 | past | past | ADV | _ | 5 heard | advmod |
| 12 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 22 overpowered | mark |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 knights | det |
| 14 | knights | knight | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 overpowered | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 knights | acl |
| 16 | behind | behind | ADV | _ | 15 left | advmod |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 Burg | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Burg | det |
| 19 | Burg | Burg | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 left | obl |
| 20 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 overpowered | aux |
| 21 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 22 overpowered | aux:pass |
| 22 | overpowered | overpower | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 heard | advcl |
| 23 | by | by | ADP | _ | 26 arms | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 arms | det |
| 25 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 arms | amod |
| 26 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 overpowered | obl |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 avengers | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 avengers | det |
| 29 | avengers | avenger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 arms | nmod |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 innocence | case |
| 31 | innocence | innocence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 avengers | nmod |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 thrust | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 thrust | cc |
| 34 | thrust | thrust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 overpowered | obl |
| 35 | in | in | ADP | _ | 38 dungeon | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 dungeon | det |
| 37 | deepest | deep | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 38 dungeon | amod |
| 38 | dungeon | dungeon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 thrust | nmod |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past · passive | the petition | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | is | past | midnight | hardly, past property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | leave behind | participle | the knights not said here | in the Burg result; behind property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in burg=Result | ||||
| 4 | overpower | past · perfect · passive | the strong arms of the avengers of innocence | the knights | thrust in the deepest dungeon obl | tree rules |
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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