Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 1, sentence 127
Out of the thicket rush the concealed rivals; a furious combat follows; the English princes are all slain, their bodies burnt and the ashes buried.
Who acts: you, furious combat, English princes · What happens: rush, conceal, follow, be, burnt, bury · To what, where: concealed rivals, thicket, bodies, ashes
This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, furious combat, English princes), 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 | Out | out | ADP | _ | 4 thicket | case |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 thicket | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 thicket | det |
| 4 | thicket | thicket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 rush | obl |
| 5 | rush | rush | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 rivals | det |
| 7 | concealed | conceal | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 rivals | amod |
| 8 | rivals | rival | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 rush | obj |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 follows | punct |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 combat | det |
| 11 | furious | furious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 combat | amod |
| 12 | combat | combat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 follows | nsubj |
| 13 | follows | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 rush | advcl |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 slain | punct |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 princes | det |
| 16 | English | English | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 princes | amod |
| 17 | princes | prince | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 slain | nsubj |
| 18 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 slain | cop |
| 19 | all | all | ADV | _ | 20 slain | advmod |
| 20 | slain | slain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 rush | advcl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 bodies | punct |
| 22 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 bodies | nmod:poss |
| 23 | bodies | body | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 slain | conj |
| 24 | burnt | burnt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 bodies | acl |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 ashes | cc |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 ashes | det |
| 27 | ashes | ash | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 burnt | conj |
| 28 | buried | bury | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 27 ashes | acl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 rush | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rush | imperative | you not said here | the concealed rivals | the thicket | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent rival=Theme out thicket=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | conceal | participle | vn concealment-16 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | follow | present | a furious combat | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | is | present | the English princes | rivals's bodies conj; all, slain property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | burnt | participle | rivals's bodies not said here | the ashes conj | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | bury | participle | the ashes not said here | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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