Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 6, sentence 35

As soon as the prisoners beheld their sovereign they knelt reverently before him, and remained in that humble position until the monarch motioned to them to rise.

Who acts: prisoners · What happens: behold, kneel, remain, motion, rise · To what, where: sovereign, humble position, monarch, prisoners

This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prisoners), 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	As	as	ADV	_	2 soon	advmod
2	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	10 knelt	advmod
3	as	as	SCONJ	_	6 beheld	mark
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 prisoners	det
5	prisoners	prisoner	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 beheld	nsubj
6	beheld	behold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 knelt	advcl
7	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 sovereign	nmod:poss
8	sovereign	sovereign	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 beheld	obj
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 knelt	nsubj
10	knelt	kneel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	reverently	reverently	ADV	_	10 knelt	advmod
12	before	before	ADP	_	13 him	case
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 knelt	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 remained	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 remained	cc
16	remained	remain	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 knelt	conj
17	in	in	ADP	_	20 position	case
18	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	20 position	det
19	humble	humble	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 position	amod
20	position	position	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 remained	obl
21	until	until	ADP	_	23 monarch	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 monarch	det
23	monarch	monarch	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 position	nmod
24	motioned	motion	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 monarch	acl
25	to	to	ADP	_	26 them	case
26	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 motioned	obl
27	to	to	PART	_	28 rise	mark
28	rise	rise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 motioned	advcl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 knelt	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	behold	past	the prisoners	prisoners's sovereign					vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sovereign=Stimulus
2	kneel	past	prisoners = prisoner				before king	reverently, soon property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before he=Location
3	remain	participle	prisoners = prisoner not said here			that humble position until the monarch			vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in position=Location
4	motion	participle		the monarch not said here	prisoners = prisoner				tree rules
5	rise	to-infinitive							vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: 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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🌲 Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 6, sentence 35

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Pragmatics

Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 6, sentence 35