Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 15, sentence 58
Mourning, the robber-band rode back to the high castle, for their leader had fallen with his horse and broken his neck.
Who acts: robber band, leader · What happens: ride back, fall, break · To what, where: Mourning, high castle, neck
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, leader), 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 | Mourning | mourning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 rode | obl:unmarked |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Mourning | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 band | det |
| 4 | robber | robber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 band | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 robber | punct |
| 6 | band | band | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 rode | nsubj |
| 7 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | back | back | ADV | _ | 7 rode | advmod |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 castle | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 castle | det |
| 11 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 castle | amod |
| 12 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 rode | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 fallen | punct |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 fallen | case |
| 15 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 leader | nmod:poss |
| 16 | leader | leader | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 fallen | nsubj |
| 17 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 fallen | aux |
| 18 | fallen | fall | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 rode | conj |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 horse | case |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 horse | nmod:poss |
| 21 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 fallen | obl |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 broken | cc |
| 23 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 fallen | conj |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 neck | nmod:poss |
| 25 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 broken | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 rode | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ride back | past | the robber band | Mourning | the high castle | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent to castle=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | fall | past · perfect | knights's leader | with leader's horse | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | break | participle | knights's leader not said here | horse's neck | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer neck=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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