Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 1, sentence 60
Instead of his speedy return, came tidings of his fall in the bloody combat.
Who acts: Conrad · What happens: come, return · To what, where: tidings
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 (Conrad), 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 | Instead | instead | ADV | ExtPos=ADP | 5 return | case |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 1 Instead | fixed |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 return | nmod:poss |
| 4 | speedy | speedy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 return | amod |
| 5 | return | return | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 came | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 return | punct |
| 7 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | tidings | tiding | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 came | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 fall | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 fall | nmod:poss |
| 11 | fall | fall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 tidings | nmod |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 combat | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 combat | det |
| 14 | bloody | bloody | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 combat | amod |
| 15 | combat | combat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 fall | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | tidings of Conrad's fall in the bloody combat | instead Conrad's speedy return | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location tiding=Theme | ||||
| 2 | return | Conrad | nom return «communication intransitive»: poss=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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