Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 4, sentence 81
"At length came the terrible battle of Mars la Tour--St. Hilaire, or Vionville--in the burning heat of August--the 16th it was--and Major Franz Omnesky was among the missing.
Who acts: Major Franz Omnesky · What happens: come, burn, be, battle · To what, where: terrible battle, length, burning heat, Mars la Tour
This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Major Franz Omnesky), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
| 2 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 length | case |
| 3 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | obl |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 battle | det |
| 6 | terrible | terrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 battle | amod |
| 7 | battle | battle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 Tour | case |
| 9 | Mars | Mars | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Tour | compound |
| 10 | la | La | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Tour | compound |
| 11 | Tour | Tour | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 battle | nmod |
| 12 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 14 Hilaire | punct |
| 13 | St. | St. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Hilaire | nmod:desc |
| 14 | Hilaire | Hilaire | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Tour | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 Vionville | punct |
| 16 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 17 Vionville | cc |
| 17 | Vionville | Vionville | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Tour | conj |
| 18 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 22 heat | punct |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 heat | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 heat | det |
| 21 | burning | burn | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 22 heat | amod |
| 22 | heat | heat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 August | case |
| 24 | August | August | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 heat | nmod |
| 25 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 27 16th | punct |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 16th | det |
| 27 | 16th | 16th | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 August | conj |
| 28 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 was | nsubj |
| 29 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 heat | cop |
| 30 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 38 missing | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 missing | cc |
| 32 | Major | Major | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 Omnesky | compound |
| 33 | Franz | Franz | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 Omnesky | compound |
| 34 | Omnesky | Omnesky | PROPN | Number=Sing | 38 missing | nsubj |
| 35 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 missing | cop |
| 36 | among | among | ADP | _ | 38 missing | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 missing | det |
| 38 | missing | missing | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 came | parataxis |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come in a quote | past | the terrible battle of Mars la Tour and Hilaire St. or Vionville | length | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location battle=Theme | ||||
| 2 | burn in a quote | gerund | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | is in a quote | past | the burning heat | august | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is in a quote | past | Major Franz Omnesky | missing property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | battle in a quote | Mars la Tour and Hilaire St. or Vionville | nom battle «act 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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