Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 10, sentence 18
But the mill, an inheritance from his great-great-grandfather, was in a tumble-down condition, and when the wind blew from the north or west the sweeps stood motionless, for mountain and forest intercepted the "breath of God."
Who acts: mill, wind, sweeps, mountain · What happens: be, blow, stand, intercept · To what, where: down condition, breath
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 (mill, wind, sweeps, mountain), 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 | _ | 21 condition | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 mill | det |
| 3 | mill | mill | NOUN | _ | 21 condition | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 inheritance | punct |
| 5 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 inheritance | det |
| 6 | inheritance | inheritance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 mill | appos |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 grandfather | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 grandfather | nmod:poss |
| 9 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 grandfather | amod |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 great | punct |
| 11 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 grandfather | amod |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 great | punct |
| 13 | grandfather | grandfather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 inheritance | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 mill | punct |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 condition | cop |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 condition | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 condition | det |
| 18 | tumble | tumble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 down | compound |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 tumble | punct |
| 20 | down | down | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 condition | amod |
| 21 | condition | condition | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 blew | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 blew | cc |
| 24 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 27 blew | advmod |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 wind | det |
| 26 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 blew | nsubj |
| 27 | blew | blow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 condition | parataxis |
| 28 | from | from | ADP | _ | 30 north | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 north | det |
| 30 | north | north | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 blew | obl |
| 31 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 35 stood | cc |
| 32 | west | west | ADV | _ | 35 stood | advmod |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 sweeps | det |
| 34 | sweeps | sweep | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 stood | nsubj |
| 35 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 blew | conj |
| 36 | motionless | motionless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 stood | xcomp |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 intercepted | punct |
| 38 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 42 intercepted | mark |
| 39 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 intercepted | nsubj |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 forest | cc |
| 41 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 mountain | conj |
| 42 | intercepted | intercept | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 stood | conj |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 breath | det |
| 44 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 45 breath | punct |
| 45 | breath | breath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 intercepted | obj |
| 46 | of | of | ADP | _ | 47 God | case |
| 47 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 45 breath | nmod |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 condition | punct |
| 49 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 condition | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the mill | a down condition | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | blow | past | the wind | from the north | vn split-23.2 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient from north=Co-Patient | ||||
| 3 | stand | past | the sweeps | motionless, west property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | intercept | past | mountain and forest | the breath of God | vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent breath=Theme |
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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