Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 9, sentence 17
In the latter rock one sees the impressions of giant feet, and Romance attempts to account for them.
Who acts: Romance attempts · What happens: see, account, impress · To what, where: impressions, latter rock, giant feet
This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Romance attempts), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 rock | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 rock | det |
| 3 | latter | latter | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 rock | amod |
| 4 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sees | obl |
| 5 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 rock | flat |
| 6 | sees | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 impressions | det |
| 8 | impressions | impression | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 sees | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 feet | case |
| 10 | giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 feet | amod |
| 11 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 impressions | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 account | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 account | cc |
| 14 | Romance | romance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 attempts | compound |
| 15 | attempts | attempt | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 account | nsubj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 account | mark |
| 17 | account | account | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sees | obl |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 them | case |
| 19 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 account | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 sees | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | present | the impressions of giant feet | the latter rock | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer impression=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | account | Romance attempts | for feet = foot | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | impress | giant feet | nom impression «cognition 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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