Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 14, sentence 40

At the time when Germany was in the middle of the great Reformation contest, two prelates sat together with their well-filled--for the empty ones were speedily filled--wine-cups before them, and discussed the pros and cons of the Reformed doctrines, and whether Mühlhausen was likely to adopt the Lutheran creed.

Who acts: Germany, two prelates, Mühlhausen, Lutheran · What happens: be, sit, fill, discuss, reform, adopt · To what, where: middle, empty ones, pros, Reformed doctrines

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 (Germany, two prelates, Mühlhausen, Lutheran), 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	At	at	ADP	_	3 time	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 time	det
3	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 sat	obl
4	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	9 middle	advmod
5	Germany	Germany	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 middle	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 middle	cop
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 middle	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 middle	det
9	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 time	nmod
10	of	of	ADP	_	14 contest	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 contest	det
12	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 contest	amod
13	Reformation	Reformation	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 contest	compound
14	contest	contest	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 middle	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 time	punct
16	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 prelates	nummod
17	prelates	prelate	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 sat	nsubj
18	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
19	together	together	ADV	_	18 sat	advmod
20	with	with	SCONJ	_	24 filled	mark
21	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 filled	nmod:poss
22	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	24 filled	advmod
23	-	-	PUNCT	_	22 well	punct
24	filled	fill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 sat	advcl
25	--	--	PUNCT	_	32 filled	punct
26	for	for	SCONJ	_	32 filled	mark
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 ones	det
28	empty	empty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 ones	amod
29	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 filled	nsubj:pass
30	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 filled	aux:pass
31	speedily	speedily	ADV	_	32 filled	advmod
32	filled	fill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 filled	conj
33	--	--	PUNCT	_	36 cups	punct
34	wine	wine	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 cups	compound
35	-	-	PUNCT	_	34 wine	punct
36	cups	cup	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 filled	obl
37	before	before	ADP	_	38 them	case
38	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 cups	nmod
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 discussed	punct
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 discussed	cc
41	discussed	discuss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 sat	conj
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 pros	det
43	pros	pro	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 discussed	obj
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 cons	cc
45	cons	con	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 pros	conj
46	of	of	ADP	_	49 doctrines	case
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 doctrines	det
48	Reformed	reform	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	49 doctrines	amod
49	doctrines	doctrine	NOUN	Number=Plur	45 cons	nmod
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	55 likely	punct
51	and	and	CCONJ	_	55 likely	cc
52	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	55 likely	mark
53	Mühlhausen	Mühlhausen	PROPN	Number=Sing	55 likely	nsubj
54	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	55 likely	cop
55	likely	likely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 discussed	conj
56	to	to	PART	_	57 adopt	mark
57	adopt	adopt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	55 likely	xcomp
58	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	59 Lutheran	det
59	Lutheran	Lutheran	PROPN	Number=Sing	60 creed	nsubj
60	creed	cree	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	57 adopt	ccomp
61	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Germany		the middle		of the great Reformation contest	tree rules
2	sit	past	two prelates			time	together property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	fill	participle	two prelates not said here				prelates = prelate nmod:poss; well property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
4	fill	past · passive		the empty ones			wine cups before prelates obl; speedily property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient
5	discuss speech: other	past	two prelates not said here	the pros and cons of the Reformed doctrines				vn chit_chat-37.6-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pro=Topic
6	reform	participle						vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
7	is	past	Mühlhausen				likely property	tree rules
8	adopt	to-infinitive	Mühlhausen not said here					vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent clause=Attribute
9	cree	past	the Lutheran					tree rules
10	con			the Reformed doctrines				nom con «communication transitive»: of=patient

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 14, sentence 40