Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 5, sentence 58

From the rocky cliff the whole company leaped into the depths, and huge blocks of granite and high pines sank after them and buried their mangled bodies in eternal night.

Who acts: huge blocks · What happens: leap, sink, bury, mangle · To what, where: whole company, depths, rocky cliff, mangled bodies

This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (huge blocks), 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	From	from	ADP	_	4 cliff	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 cliff	det
3	rocky	rocky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 cliff	amod
4	cliff	cliff	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 sank	obl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 company	det
6	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 company	amod
7	company	company	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cliff	appos
8	leaped	leap	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 company	acl
9	into	into	ADP	_	11 depths	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 depths	det
11	depths	depth	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 leaped	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 cliff	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 blocks	cc
14	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 blocks	amod
15	blocks	block	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 sank	nsubj
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 granite	case
17	granite	granite	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 blocks	nmod
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 pines	cc
19	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 pines	amod
20	pines	pine	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 granite	conj
21	sank	sink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
22	after	after	ADP	_	23 them	case
23	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 sank	obl
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 buried	cc
25	buried	bury	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 sank	conj
26	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 bodies	nmod:poss
27	mangled	mangle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 bodies	amod
28	bodies	body	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 buried	obj
29	in	in	ADP	_	31 night	case
30	eternal	eternal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 night	amod
31	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 buried	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	21 sank	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	leap	participle		the whole company not said here	the depths		vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into depth=Destination
2	sink	past	huge blocks of granite and high pines		the rocky cliff	after pines = pine	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	bury	past	huge blocks of granite and high pines not said here	blocks's mangled bodies		night	vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent body=Theme
4	mangle	participle					vn carve-21.2-3 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74323/22/58/

🌲 Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 5, sentence 58

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 5, sentence 58