Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 9, sentence 32
[2] _Maien_--green branches of the birch used to deck the May-pole, and in Thuringia and other parts of Germany the churches at Pentecost.
What happens: use, deck · To what, where: birch, May pole, Maien
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: 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 | _ | 2 2 | punct |
| 2 | 2 | 2 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 Maien | discourse |
| 3 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 2 2 | punct |
| 4 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 5 Maien | punct |
| 5 | Maien | Maien | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 5 Maien | punct |
| 7 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 9 branches | punct |
| 8 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 branches | amod |
| 9 | branches | branch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 Maien | appos |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 birch | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 birch | det |
| 12 | birch | birch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 branches | nmod |
| 13 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 birch | acl |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 deck | mark |
| 15 | deck | deck | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 used | advcl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 pole | det |
| 17 | May | May | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 pole | compound |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 May | punct |
| 19 | pole | pole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 deck | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 Thuringia | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 Thuringia | cc |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 Thuringia | case |
| 23 | Thuringia | Thuringia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Maien | conj |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 parts | cc |
| 25 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 parts | amod |
| 26 | parts | part | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 Thuringia | conj |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 Germany | case |
| 28 | Germany | Germany | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 parts | appos |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 churches | det |
| 30 | churches | church | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 Germany | parataxis |
| 31 | at | at | ADP | _ | 32 Pentecost | case |
| 32 | Pentecost | Pentecost | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 churches | nmod |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 Maien | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use | participle | the birch not said here | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | deck | to-infinitive | the May pole | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme pole=Destination |
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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