Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 8, sentence 96

The Earl rode one Sunday morning to Ellrich, as an invited guest to a grand banquet, where all the guests were to drink for a wager, the reward being a chain of gold.

Who acts: Earl, guests, reward · What happens: ride, invite, drink, be · To what, where: Ellrich, chain

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 (Earl, guests, reward), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Earl	det
2	Earl	Earl	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 rode	nsubj
3	rode	ride	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 morning	nummod
5	Sunday	Sunday	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 morning	compound
6	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 rode	obl:unmarked
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 Ellrich	case
8	Ellrich	Ellrich	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 rode	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 guest	punct
10	as	as	ADP	_	13 guest	case
11	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 guest	det
12	invited	invite	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 guest	amod
13	guest	guest	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 rode	obl
14	to	to	ADP	_	17 banquet	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 banquet	det
16	grand	grand	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 banquet	amod
17	banquet	banquet	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 rode	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 drink	punct
19	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	25 drink	advmod
20	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	22 guests	det:predet
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 guests	det
22	guests	guest	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 drink	nsubj
23	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 drink	aux
24	to	to	PART	_	25 drink	mark
25	drink	drink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 rode	parataxis
26	for	for	ADP	_	28 wager	case
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 wager	det
28	wager	wager	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 drink	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 chain	punct
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 reward	det
31	reward	reward	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 chain	nsubj
32	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	34 chain	cop
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 chain	det
34	chain	chain	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 drink	conj
35	of	of	ADP	_	36 gold	case
36	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 chain	nmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 rode	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ride	past	the Earl		Ellrich	morning	as a invited guest; to a grand banquet	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent to ellrich=Trajectory
2	invite	participle						vn promote-102 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
3	drink	past	all guests				for a wager	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is a	gerund	the reward	a chain			of gold	tree rules

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 8, sentence 96

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 8, sentence 96