Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 15, sentence 75
Covered with the blood of those they had robbed, they returned laden with booty to the castle.
What happens: cover, rob, lade · To what, where: robbers
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: 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 | Covered | cover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 2 | with | with | ADP | _ | 4 blood | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 blood | det |
| 4 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Covered | obl |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 those | case |
| 6 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 4 blood | nmod |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 robbed | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 robbed | aux |
| 9 | robbed | rob | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 those | acl:relcl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 laden | punct |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 laden | nsubj |
| 12 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 laden | aux:pass |
| 13 | laden | lade | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Covered | conj |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 booty | case |
| 15 | booty | booty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 laden | obl |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 castle | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 castle | det |
| 18 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 booty | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Covered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cover | participle | with the blood of those | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with blood=Theme | |||||
| 2 | rob | past · perfect · passive | robbers = robber | vn cheat-10.6.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Source | |||||
| 3 | lade | past · passive | robbers = robber | with booty to the castle | 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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