Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 8, sentence 117
Franks are marching through the wood From the destroyed castle; in their midst The captive daughter.
Who acts: Franks · What happens: march, destroy · To what, where: wood
This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Franks), 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 | Franks | frank | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 marching | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 marching | aux |
| 3 | marching | march | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | through | through | ADP | _ | 6 wood | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 wood | det |
| 6 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 marching | obl |
| 7 | From | from | ADP | _ | 10 castle | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 castle | det |
| 9 | destroyed | destroy | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 castle | amod |
| 10 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 marching | obl |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 midst | punct |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 midst | case |
| 13 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 midst | nmod:poss |
| 14 | midst | midst | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 marching | parataxis |
| 15 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 daughter | det |
| 16 | captive | captive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 daughter | amod |
| 17 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 midst | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 marching | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | march | present · progressive | Franks | the wood | from the destroyed castle; Franks's midst and the captive daughter parataxis | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through wood=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | destroy | participle | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: 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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