Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 1, sentence 91
Extreme unction had been administered in Kloster Wenthusen, and armed with a dagger for the combat with the transformed Giant Bodo, and an iron chain to bind him, with a look toward heaven, Conrad plunged into the yawning gulf.
Who acts: Kloster, Conrad · What happens: administer, transform, bind, plunge · To what, where: Extreme unction, Bodo, yawning gulf
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 (Kloster, 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 | Extreme | extreme | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 unction | amod |
| 2 | unction | unction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 administered | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 administered | aux |
| 4 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 administered | aux:pass |
| 5 | administered | administer | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 Kloster | case |
| 7 | Kloster | Kloster | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 administered | obl:agent |
| 8 | Wenthusen | Wenthusen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Kloster | flat |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 armed | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 armed | cc |
| 11 | armed | armed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 administered | conj |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 dagger | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 dagger | det |
| 14 | dagger | dagger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 armed | obl |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 combat | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 combat | det |
| 17 | combat | combat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 dagger | nmod |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 Bodo | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 Bodo | det |
| 20 | transformed | transform | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 Bodo | amod |
| 21 | Giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 Bodo | amod |
| 22 | Bodo | Bodo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 combat | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 chain | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 chain | cc |
| 25 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 chain | det |
| 26 | iron | iron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 chain | compound |
| 27 | chain | chain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 administered | obl:agent |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 bind | mark |
| 29 | bind | bind | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 chain | acl |
| 30 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 bind | obj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 look | punct |
| 32 | with | with | ADP | _ | 34 look | case |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 look | det |
| 34 | look | look | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 bind | obl |
| 35 | toward | toward | ADP | _ | 36 heaven | case |
| 36 | heaven | heaven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 look | nmod |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 plunged | punct |
| 38 | Conrad | Conrad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 39 plunged | nsubj |
| 39 | plunged | plunge | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 look | conj |
| 40 | into | into | ADP | _ | 43 gulf | case |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 gulf | det |
| 42 | yawning | yawning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 gulf | compound |
| 43 | gulf | gulf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 plunged | obl |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 administered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | administer | past · perfect · passive | Kloster | Extreme unction | a iron chain obl:agent | vn contribute-13.2-1-1 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | |||
| 2 | transform | participle | vn turn-26.6.1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 3 | bind | to-infinitive | Kloster not said here | Bodo | with a look toward heaven | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent he=Patient with look=Co-Patient | |||
| 4 | plunge | past | Conrad | the yawning gulf | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into gulf=Initial_Location |
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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