Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 8, sentence 98
Three of these leaned against the wall, and only the Earl von Klettenberg stood upright; to him, therefore, the victory was awarded.
Who acts: Earl von Klettenberg · What happens: lean, stand, award · To what, where: Three, wall, Klettenberg
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 von Klettenberg), 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 | Three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 leaned | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 3 these | case |
| 3 | these | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 1 Three | nmod |
| 4 | leaned | lean | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | against | against | ADP | _ | 7 wall | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 wall | det |
| 7 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 leaned | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 stood | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 stood | cc |
| 10 | only | only | ADV | _ | 14 Klettenberg | advmod |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Klettenberg | det |
| 12 | Earl | Earl | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Klettenberg | compound |
| 13 | von | von | PROPN | _ | 14 Klettenberg | compound |
| 14 | Klettenberg | Klettenberg | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 stood | nsubj |
| 15 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 leaned | conj |
| 16 | upright | upright | ADV | _ | 15 stood | advmod |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 awarded | punct |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 him | case |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 awarded | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 him | punct |
| 21 | therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 26 awarded | advmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 therefore | punct |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 victory | det |
| 24 | victory | victory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 awarded | nsubj:pass |
| 25 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 awarded | aux:pass |
| 26 | awarded | award | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 leaned | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 leaned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lean | participle · passive | Three of these | the wall | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme against wall=Destination | ||||
| 2 | stand | past | the Earl von Klettenberg | upright property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | award | past · passive | Klettenberg | the victory nsubj:pass; therefore property | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: subject=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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