Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 10, sentence 40
A similar tradition, with slight variations, is told of the _Burgmühle_, or castle mill, near Aschersleben, on the Wolfsberg.
Who acts: Burgmühle · What happens: tell · To what, where: similar tradition · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Burgmühle), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 tradition | det |
| 2 | similar | similar | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 tradition | amod |
| 3 | tradition | tradition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 told | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 variations | punct |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 variations | case |
| 6 | slight | slight | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 variations | amod |
| 7 | variations | variation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 tradition | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 tradition | punct |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 told | aux:pass |
| 10 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 Burgmühle | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Burgmühle | det |
| 13 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 14 Burgmühle | punct |
| 14 | Burgmühle | Burgmühle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 told | obl:agent |
| 15 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 14 Burgmühle | punct |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 mill | punct |
| 17 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 19 mill | cc |
| 18 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 mill | compound |
| 19 | mill | mill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 Burgmühle | appos |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 Aschersleben | punct |
| 21 | near | near | ADP | _ | 22 Aschersleben | case |
| 22 | Aschersleben | Aschersleben | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 told | parataxis |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 Wolfsberg | punct |
| 24 | on | on | ADP | _ | 26 Wolfsberg | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 Wolfsberg | det |
| 26 | Wolfsberg | Wolfsberg | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Aschersleben | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | present · passive | the Burgmühle | a similar tradition and slight variations | Aschersleben and the Wolfsberg parataxis | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent subject=Recipient |
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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