Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 6, sentence 98
Some even, as if in joke, bent their cross-bows toward him, and one pointed iron bolt lodged in the trunk of a rotten tree close by him.
Who acts: joke · What happens: bend, lodge · To what, where: cross-bows, one pointed iron bolt, trunk
This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (joke), 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 7 joke | nsubj |
| 2 | even | even | ADV | _ | 7 joke | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 joke | punct |
| 4 | as | as | ADP | _ | 7 joke | case |
| 5 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 7 joke | mark |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 joke | case |
| 7 | joke | joke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 bent | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 joke | punct |
| 9 | bent | bend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 cross-bows | nmod:poss |
| 11 | cross-bows | cross-bow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 bent | obj |
| 12 | toward | toward | ADP | _ | 13 him | case |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 bent | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 lodged | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 lodged | cc |
| 16 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 bolt | nummod |
| 17 | pointed | pointed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 bolt | amod |
| 18 | iron | iron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 bolt | compound |
| 19 | bolt | bolt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 lodged | obl:unmarked |
| 20 | lodged | lodge | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 bent | conj |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 trunk | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 trunk | det |
| 23 | trunk | trunk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 lodged | obl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 tree | case |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 tree | det |
| 26 | rotten | rotten | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 tree | amod |
| 27 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 trunk | nmod |
| 28 | close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 lodged | xcomp |
| 29 | by | by | ADP | _ | 30 him | case |
| 30 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 close | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 bent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bend | past | joke | soldiers's cross-bows | toward fulfilment | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent cross-bow=Material | |||
| 2 | lodge | participle | joke not said here | one pointed iron bolt | the trunk of a rotten tree | close property | vn odge-46-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in trunk=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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