Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 15, sentence 48
From the high fortress the robber-band of knights rode down the mountain, for they perceived the long-desired prey in the distance.
Who acts: robber band, knights · What happens: ride down, perceive, desire · To what, where: mountain, high fortress, desired prey
This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (robber band, knights), 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 | From | from | ADP | _ | 4 fortress | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 fortress | det |
| 3 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 fortress | amod |
| 4 | fortress | fortress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 rode | obl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 band | det |
| 6 | robber | robber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 band | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 robber | punct |
| 8 | band | band | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 rode | nsubj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 knights | case |
| 10 | knights | knight | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 band | nmod |
| 11 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | down | down | ADP | _ | 11 rode | compound:prt |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 mountain | det |
| 14 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 rode | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 perceived | punct |
| 16 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 18 perceived | mark |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 perceived | nsubj |
| 18 | perceived | perceive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 rode | conj |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 prey | det |
| 20 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 desired | amod |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 long | punct |
| 22 | desired | desire | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 prey | amod |
| 23 | prey | prey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 perceived | obj |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 distance | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 distance | det |
| 26 | distance | distance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 perceived | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 rode | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ride down | past | the robber band of knights | the mountain | the high fortress | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent mountain=Theme from fortress=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | perceive | past | knights = knight | the desired prey | in the distance | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer prey=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | desire | participle | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot |
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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