Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 7, sentence 29
But Volkmar was not fallen in battle, but had been only severely wounded and taken prisoner by the Wenden, and led away into their deep forests, and it was long before they gave him back his freedom.
Who acts: angel · What happens: not fall, be, take, lead away · To what, where: Volkmar, battle, prisoner, deep forests
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 (angel), 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 | _ | 5 fallen | cc |
| 2 | Volkmar | Volkmar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 fallen | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 fallen | aux:pass |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 fallen | advmod |
| 5 | fallen | fall | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 battle | case |
| 7 | battle | battle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 fallen | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 wounded | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 wounded | cc |
| 10 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 wounded | aux |
| 11 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 14 wounded | cop |
| 12 | only | only | ADV | _ | 14 wounded | advmod |
| 13 | severely | severely | ADV | _ | 14 wounded | advmod |
| 14 | wounded | wounded | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 fallen | parataxis |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 taken | cc |
| 16 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 14 wounded | conj |
| 17 | prisoner | prisoner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 taken | xcomp |
| 18 | by | by | ADP | _ | 20 Wenden | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Wenden | det |
| 20 | Wenden | Wenden | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 taken | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 led | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 led | cc |
| 23 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 fallen | parataxis |
| 24 | away | away | ADV | _ | 23 led | advmod |
| 25 | into | into | ADP | _ | 28 forests | case |
| 26 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 forests | nmod:poss |
| 27 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 forests | amod |
| 28 | forests | forest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 led | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 gave | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 gave | cc |
| 31 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 gave | nsubj |
| 32 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 gave | cop |
| 33 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 36 gave | advmod |
| 34 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 36 gave | mark |
| 35 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 gave | nsubj |
| 36 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 led | conj |
| 37 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 gave | iobj |
| 38 | back | back | ADV | _ | 36 gave | advmod |
| 39 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 40 freedom | nmod:poss |
| 40 | freedom | freedom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 gave | obj |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 fallen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not fall | past · passive | Volkmar | battle | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: subject=Result | ||||
| 2 | is | past · perfect | severely, wounded property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | take | participle | prisoner | by the Wenden | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | lead away | past | tears's deep forests | away property | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent into forest=Destination | ||||
| 5 | is | past | angel | Volkmar | tears = tear nsubj; Volkmar's freedom obj; give, long property | tree rules |
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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