Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 10, sentence 45

We find proofs of their existence here in huge mounds filled with human skulls and bones, and in the names of some of her villages, as, for example, Dorf Kattenstedt.

Who acts: We, proofs · What happens: find, fill, proof, exist · To what, where: proofs, huge mounds, existence

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 (We, proofs), 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	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 find	nsubj
2	find	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	proofs	proof	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 find	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 existence	case
5	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 existence	nmod:poss
6	existence	existence	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 proofs	nmod
7	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 find	advmod
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 mounds	case
9	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 mounds	amod
10	mounds	mound	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 find	obl
11	filled	fill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 mounds	acl
12	with	with	ADP	_	14 skulls	case
13	human	human	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 skulls	amod
14	skulls	skull	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 filled	obl
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 bones	cc
16	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 skulls	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 names	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 names	cc
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 names	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 names	det
21	names	name	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 find	obj
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 some	case
23	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	21 names	nmod
24	of	of	ADP	_	26 villages	case
25	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 villages	nmod:poss
26	villages	village	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 some	nmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 as	punct
28	as	as	ADV	_	21 names	advmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 example	punct
30	for	for	ADP	_	31 example	case
31	example	example	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 names	nmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 Dorf	punct
33	Dorf	Dorf	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 example	appos
34	Kattenstedt	Kattenstedt	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 Dorf	flat
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 find	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	find	present	We	proofs of proofs's existence	huge mounds; here	the names of some of Sassen's villages obj	vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent proof=Theme name=Attribute
2	fill	participle		huge mounds not said here		with human skulls and bones	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with skull=Instrument
3	proof			proofs's existence			nom proof «cognition transitive»: of=patient
4	exist		proofs = proof				nom existence «state intransitive»: poss=agent

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 45

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Pragmatics

Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 10, sentence 45