Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 2, sentence 20
In 1115 the battle of Welfsholz--not far from the village of Warnstedt, nestling in the shadow of the Devil's Wall--was fought between the Kaiser and the allied princes of Saxony, in which the imperial forces were routed.
Who acts: village · What happens: nestle, fight, ally, rout, battle, shadow · To what, where: shadow, battle, 1115, imperial forces, Welfsholz, Wall
This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (village), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 1115 | case |
| 2 | 1115 | 1115 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 27 fought | obl |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 battle | det |
| 4 | battle | battle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 fought | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 Welfsholz | case |
| 6 | Welfsholz | Welfsholz | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 battle | nmod |
| 7 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 12 village | punct |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 far | advmod |
| 9 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 12 village | advmod |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 village | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 village | det |
| 12 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 battle | appos |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 Warnstedt | case |
| 14 | Warnstedt | Warnstedt | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 village | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 nestling | punct |
| 16 | nestling | nestle | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 village | acl |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 shadow | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 shadow | det |
| 19 | shadow | shadow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 nestling | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 Wall | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 Devil | det |
| 22 | Devil | Devil | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 Wall | nmod:poss |
| 23 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 22 Devil | case |
| 24 | Wall | Wall | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 shadow | nmod |
| 25 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 4 battle | punct |
| 26 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 fought | aux:pass |
| 27 | fought | fight | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 28 | between | between | ADP | _ | 30 Kaiser | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 Kaiser | det |
| 30 | Kaiser | Kaiser | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 fought | obl |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 princes | cc |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 princes | det |
| 33 | allied | ally | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 34 princes | amod |
| 34 | princes | prince | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 Kaiser | conj |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 Saxony | case |
| 36 | Saxony | Saxony | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 princes | nmod |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 routed | punct |
| 38 | in | in | ADP | _ | 39 which | case |
| 39 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 44 routed | obl |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 forces | det |
| 41 | imperial | imperial | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 forces | amod |
| 42 | forces | force | NOUN | Number=Plur | 44 routed | nsubj:pass |
| 43 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 44 routed | aux:pass |
| 44 | routed | rout | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 27 fought | conj |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 27 fought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nestle | gerund | the village of Warnstedt not said here | the shadow of the Devil's Wall | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in shadow=Location | ||||
| 2 | fight | past · passive | the battle of Welfsholz | 1115 | between the Kaiser and the allied princes of Saxony | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Co-Agent | |||
| 3 | ally | participle | vn conspire-71 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | rout | past · passive | the imperial forces | which obl | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | battle | Welfsholz | nom battle «act transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 6 | shadow | the Devil's Wall | nom shadow «state transitive»: of=patient |
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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