Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 10, sentence 104

It was a stormy, dismal winter night, when a teamster drove with a heavy load of wine along the almost impassable road near the little mountain church of Elend, at the foot of the Brocken.

Who acts: Chapel, teamster · What happens: be, drive · To what, where: stormy dismal winter night, little mountain church

This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Chapel, teamster), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 night	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 night	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 night	det
4	stormy	stormy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 night	amod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 stormy	punct
6	dismal	dismal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 night	amod
7	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 night	compound
8	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 drove	punct
10	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	13 drove	advmod
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 teamster	det
12	teamster	teamster	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 drove	nsubj
13	drove	drive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 night	conj
14	with	with	ADP	_	17 load	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 load	det
16	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 load	amod
17	load	load	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 drove	obl
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 wine	case
19	wine	wine	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 load	nmod
20	along	along	ADP	_	24 road	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 road	det
22	almost	almost	ADV	_	23 impassable	advmod
23	impassable	impassable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 road	amod
24	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 drove	obl
25	near	near	ADP	_	29 church	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 church	det
27	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 church	amod
28	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 church	compound
29	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 drove	obl
30	of	of	ADP	_	31 Elend	case
31	Elend	Elend	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 church	nmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 foot	punct
33	at	at	ADP	_	35 foot	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 foot	det
35	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 church	conj
36	of	of	ADP	_	38 Brocken	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 Brocken	det
38	Brocken	Brocken	PROPN	Number=Sing	35 foot	nmod
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 night	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Chapel	a stormy dismal winter night					tree rules
2	drive	past	a teamster			the little mountain church of Elend and the foot of the Brocken		with a heavy load of wine; along the impassable road	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent along road=Trajectory

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 10, sentence 104

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 10, sentence 104