Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 7, sentence 20

But the Kaiser challenged his knights to combat against the Wenden, who still clung to heathenism, and refused to recognize Christianity, or the authority of the Kaiser.

Who acts: Kaiser, Wenden · What happens: challenge, combat, cling, refuse, not recognize · To what, where: knights, Wenden, Christianity

This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Kaiser, Wenden), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 challenged	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Kaiser	det
3	Kaiser	Kaiser	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 challenged	nsubj
4	challenged	challenge	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 knights	nmod:poss
6	knights	knight	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 challenged	obj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 combat	mark
8	combat	combat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 challenged	xcomp
9	against	against	ADP	_	11 Wenden	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Wenden	det
11	Wenden	Wenden	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 combat	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 clung	punct
13	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 clung	nsubj
14	still	still	ADV	_	15 clung	advmod
15	clung	cling	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 Wenden	acl
16	to	to	ADP	_	17 heathenism	case
17	heathenism	heathenism	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 clung	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 refused	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 refused	cc
20	refused	refuse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 challenged	conj
21	to	to	PART	_	22 recognize	mark
22	recognize	recognize	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 refused	xcomp
23	Christianity	Christianity	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 recognize	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 authority	punct
25	or	or	CCONJ	_	27 authority	cc
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 authority	det
27	authority	authority	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 Christianity	appos
28	of	of	ADP	_	30 Kaiser	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 Kaiser	det
30	Kaiser	Kaiser	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 authority	nmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 challenged	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	challenge	past	the Kaiser	Kaiser's knights			tree rules
2	combat	to-infinitive	the Kaiser not said here	the Wenden			vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wenden=Co-Agent
3	cling	participle	the Wenden		still	to heathenism	vn cling-22.5 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme to heathenism=Co-Theme
4	refuse	past	the Kaiser not said here				vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5	not recognize	to-infinitive	the Kaiser not said here	Christianity			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer christianity=Stimulus

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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🌲 Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 7, sentence 20

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 7, sentence 20