Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 1, sentence 84
But Conrad raised high his proud form, struck his sword upon the floor, so that the hall rang with the clans;, and cried in a voice of thunder: "Who dares speak of treachery to Graf Lauenburg?
Who acts: Conrad, hall · What happens: raise, strike, ring, cry, dare, form · To what, where: proud form, sword, voice, speak, Graf Lauenburg · Speech: someone speaks here
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, hall), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 raised | cc |
| 2 | Conrad | Conrad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 raised | nsubj |
| 3 | raised | raise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 raised | xcomp |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 form | nmod:poss |
| 6 | proud | proud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 form | amod |
| 7 | form | form | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 raised | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 struck | punct |
| 9 | struck | strike | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 raised | parataxis |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 sword | nmod:poss |
| 11 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 struck | obj |
| 12 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 14 floor | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 floor | det |
| 14 | floor | floor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 struck | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 rang | punct |
| 16 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 20 rang | mark |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 so | fixed |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 hall | det |
| 19 | hall | hall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 rang | nsubj |
| 20 | rang | ring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 struck | conj |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 clans | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 clans | det |
| 23 | clans | clan | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 rang | obl |
| 24 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 3 raised | punct |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 cried | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 cried | cc |
| 27 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 raised | parataxis |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 voice | case |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 voice | det |
| 30 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 cried | obl |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 thunder | case |
| 32 | thunder | thunder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 voice | nmod |
| 33 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 36 dares | punct |
| 34 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 36 dares | punct |
| 35 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 36 dares | nsubj |
| 36 | dares | dare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 cried | conj |
| 37 | speak | speak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 dares | obj |
| 38 | of | of | ADP | _ | 39 treachery | case |
| 39 | treachery | treachery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 speak | nmod |
| 40 | to | to | ADP | _ | 42 Lauenburg | case |
| 41 | Graf | Graf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 42 Lauenburg | compound |
| 42 | Lauenburg | Lauenburg | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 dares | obl |
| 43 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 raised | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | raise | past | Conrad | Conrad's proud form | high property | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent form=Theme | |||
| 2 | strike | past | Conrad's sword | upon the floor | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sword=Patient | ||||
| 3 | ring | past | the hall | with the clans | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with clan=Theme | ||||
| 4 | cry speech: express | past | a voice of thunder | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in voice=Location | |||||
| 5 | dare in a quote | present | speak of treachery | Graf Lauenburg | Who nsubj | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent speak=Recipient | |||
| 6 | form | Conrad | nom form «communication transitive»: 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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