Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 15, sentence 5
They sprang to their feet, forced him to silence, and after a short consultation voted unanimously that the blasphemer of their gods must die.
Who acts: tops, short consultation, blasphemer · What happens: spring, force, vote, die · To what, where: feet, stranger
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 (tops, short consultation, blasphemer), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 sprang | nsubj |
| 2 | sprang | spring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 feet | case |
| 4 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 feet | nmod:poss |
| 5 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 sprang | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 forced | punct |
| 7 | forced | force | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 sprang | parataxis |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 forced | obj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 silence | mark |
| 10 | silence | silence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 forced | xcomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 voted | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 voted | cc |
| 13 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 17 voted | mark |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 consultation | det |
| 15 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 consultation | amod |
| 16 | consultation | consultation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 voted | nsubj |
| 17 | voted | vote | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 forced | conj |
| 18 | unanimously | unanimously | ADV | _ | 17 voted | advmod |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 26 die | mark |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 blasphemer | det |
| 21 | blasphemer | blasphemer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 die | nsubj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 gods | case |
| 23 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 gods | nmod:poss |
| 24 | gods | god | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 blasphemer | nmod |
| 25 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 die | aux |
| 26 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 voted | advcl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 sprang | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spring | past | tops = top | tops's feet | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to foot=Destination | ||||
| 2 | force | past | stranger | silence xcomp | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | vote | past | a short consultation | unanimously property | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | die | must | the blasphemer of tops's gods | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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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