Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 3, sentence 28
McIverich, King of Thuringia, with his army thirsting for war, crossed the mountains to repulse the Sassen then dwelling on the north borders of the Harz.
Who acts: army, McIverich · What happens: thirst, cross, repulse, dwell · To what, where: mountains, Sassen, north borders
This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (army, McIverich), 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 | McIverich | McIverich | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 crossed | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 King | punct |
| 3 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 McIverich | appos |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Thuringia | case |
| 5 | Thuringia | Thuringia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 King | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 army | punct |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 army | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 army | nmod:poss |
| 9 | army | army | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 McIverich | appos |
| 10 | thirsting | thirst | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 army | acl |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 war | case |
| 12 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 thirsting | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 McIverich | punct |
| 14 | crossed | cross | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 mountains | det |
| 16 | mountains | mountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 crossed | obj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 repulse | mark |
| 18 | repulse | repulse | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 crossed | advcl |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Sassen | det |
| 20 | Sassen | Sassen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 repulse | obj |
| 21 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 22 dwelling | advmod |
| 22 | dwelling | dwell | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 repulse | advcl |
| 23 | on | on | ADP | _ | 26 borders | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 borders | det |
| 25 | north | north | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 borders | compound |
| 26 | borders | border | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 dwelling | obl |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 Harz | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 Harz | det |
| 29 | Harz | Harz | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 borders | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 crossed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | thirst | gerund | McIverich's army not said here | for war | vn long-32.2-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for war=Theme | ||||
| 2 | cross | past | McIverich | the mountains | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mountain=Patient | ||||
| 3 | repulse | to-infinitive | McIverich not said here | the Sassen | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus sassen=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | dwell | gerund | McIverich not said here | the north borders of the Harz | then | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on border=Location |
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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