Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 8, sentence 97
They drank for hours, till all were _hors de combat_ save four knights.
Who acts: guests, hors · What happens: drink, be, save · To what, where: four knights
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 (guests, hors), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 drank | nsubj |
| 2 | drank | drink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 4 hours | case |
| 4 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 drank | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 hors | punct |
| 6 | till | till | ADP | _ | 10 hors | case |
| 7 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 hors | det |
| 8 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 hors | cop |
| 9 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 10 hors | punct |
| 10 | hors | hor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 save | nsubj |
| 11 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 12 combat | compound |
| 12 | combat | combat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 hors | conj |
| 13 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 10 hors | punct |
| 14 | save | save | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 drank | parataxis |
| 15 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 knights | nummod |
| 16 | knights | knight | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 save | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 drank | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drink | past | guests = guest | hour | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is | past | till all hors and de combat | de combat conj | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | save | present | all hors and de combat | four knights | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knight=Theme |
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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