Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 10, sentence 27
The rich treasures of the Rammelsberg were discovered in 970, according to tradition, by accident.
Who acts: accident · What happens: discover, accord, treasure · To what, where: rich treasures, 970, Rammelsberg
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 (accident), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 treasures | det |
| 2 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 treasures | amod |
| 3 | treasures | treasure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 discovered | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 Rammelsberg | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Rammelsberg | det |
| 6 | Rammelsberg | Rammelsberg | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 treasures | nmod |
| 7 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 discovered | aux:pass |
| 8 | discovered | discover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 970 | case |
| 10 | 970 | 970 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 discovered | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 tradition | punct |
| 12 | according | accord | VERB | ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 tradition | case |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 according | fixed |
| 14 | tradition | tradition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 discovered | parataxis |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 accident | punct |
| 16 | by | by | ADP | _ | 17 accident | case |
| 17 | accident | accident | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 discovered | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 discovered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | discover | past · passive | accident | the rich treasures of the Rammelsberg | 970 | tradition parataxis | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Topic | ||
| 2 | accord | gerund | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | treasure | the Rammelsberg | nom treasure «possession 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74323/11/27/