Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 4, sentence 88
"Then came the 18th of August, that most murderous of all the engagements of the war, the battle of Gravelotte, in which the Kaiser commanded in person, with a brilliant staff, Prinz Friedrich Karl, Steinmetz, Moltke, Roon, Bismarck being on it.
Who acts: Kaiser, war · What happens: come, command, engage, battle · To what, where: Gravelotte · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Kaiser, war), 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 | _ | 3 came | punct |
| 2 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 came | advmod |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 August | det |
| 5 | 18th | 18th | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Combi NumType=Ord | 7 August | amod |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 August | case |
| 7 | August | August | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 came | obl:unmarked |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 murderous | punct |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 murderous | mark |
| 10 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 11 murderous | amod |
| 11 | murderous | murderous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 came | conj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 engagements | case |
| 13 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 engagements | det:predet |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 engagements | det |
| 15 | engagements | engagement | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 murderous | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 war | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 war | det |
| 18 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 engagements | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 battle | punct |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 battle | det |
| 21 | battle | battle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 engagements | conj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 Gravelotte | case |
| 23 | Gravelotte | Gravelotte | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 battle | nmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 commanded | punct |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 which | case |
| 26 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 29 commanded | obl |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 Kaiser | det |
| 28 | Kaiser | Kaiser | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 commanded | nsubj |
| 29 | commanded | command | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 murderous | conj |
| 30 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 person | case |
| 31 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 commanded | obl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 staff | punct |
| 33 | with | with | ADP | _ | 36 staff | case |
| 34 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 36 staff | det |
| 35 | brilliant | brilliant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 staff | amod |
| 36 | staff | staff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 commanded | obl |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 Karl | punct |
| 38 | Prinz | Prinz | PROPN | Number=Sing | 40 Karl | compound |
| 39 | Friedrich | Friedrich | PROPN | Number=Sing | 40 Karl | compound |
| 40 | Karl | Karl | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 staff | appos |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 Steinmetz | punct |
| 42 | Steinmetz | Steinmetz | PROPN | Number=Sing | 40 Karl | flat |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 Moltke | punct |
| 44 | Moltke | Moltke | PROPN | Number=Sing | 40 Karl | conj |
| 45 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 Roon | punct |
| 46 | Roon | Roon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 40 Karl | conj |
| 47 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 48 Bismarck | punct |
| 48 | Bismarck | Bismarck | PROPN | Number=Sing | 40 Karl | conj |
| 49 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 36 staff | acl |
| 50 | on | on | ADP | _ | 51 it | case |
| 51 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 49 being | obl |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come in a quote | past | then; august | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | command in a quote | past | the Kaiser | in person; with a brilliant staff; which obl | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.theme PP.predicate»: agent=Agent in which=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | engage in a quote | the war | nom engagement «act intransitive»: of=agent | ||||||
| 4 | battle in a quote | Gravelotte | 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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