Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 11, sentence 102

At a time when very few men lived upon the earth, when towns and villages were few and very widely separated, when there were no roads in the mountains, and before Romulus and Remus were rescued by the motherly wolf on the yellow Tiber, or Nausikaa fell in love with Odysseus, there stood a house on the site of Schloss Ilsenburg, inhabited by a widow and her daughter Trude.

Who acts: few men, towns, roads, motherly wolf, Nausikaa · What happens: live, be, separate, rescue, fall, stand · To what, where: earth, Romulus, yellow Tiber, love, house, site

This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (few men, towns, roads, motherly wolf), 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	At	at	ADP	_	3 time	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 time	det
3	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 lived	obl
4	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 lived	advmod
5	very	very	ADV	_	6 few	advmod
6	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 men	amod
7	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 lived	nsubj
8	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	upon	upon	ADP	_	11 earth	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 earth	det
11	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 lived	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 few	punct
13	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	18 few	advmod
14	towns	town	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 few	nsubj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 villages	cc
16	villages	village	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 towns	conj
17	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 few	cop
18	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 lived	conj
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 separated	cc
20	very	very	ADV	_	21 widely	advmod
21	widely	widely	ADV	_	22 separated	advmod
22	separated	separate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 few	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 were	punct
24	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	26 were	advmod
25	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	26 were	expl
26	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 lived	conj
27	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	28 roads	det
28	roads	road	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 were	nsubj
29	in	in	ADP	_	31 mountains	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 mountains	det
31	mountains	mountain	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 roads	nmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 rescued	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 rescued	cc
34	before	before	ADP	_	35 Romulus	case
35	Romulus	Romulus	PROPN	Number=Sing	39 rescued	nsubj:pass
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 Remus	cc
37	Remus	Remus	PROPN	Number=Sing	35 Romulus	conj
38	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 rescued	aux:pass
39	rescued	rescue	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 lived	conj
40	by	by	ADP	_	43 wolf	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 wolf	det
42	motherly	motherly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 wolf	amod
43	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 rescued	obl
44	on	on	ADP	_	47 Tiber	case
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 Tiber	det
46	yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 Tiber	amod
47	Tiber	Tiber	PROPN	Number=Sing	39 rescued	obl
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 fell	punct
49	or	or	CCONJ	_	51 fell	cc
50	Nausikaa	Nausikaa	PROPN	Number=Sing	51 fell	nsubj
51	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 lived	conj
52	in	in	ADP	_	53 love	case
53	love	love	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 fell	obl
54	with	with	ADP	_	55 Odysseus	case
55	Odysseus	Odysseus	PROPN	Number=Sing	51 fell	obl
56	,	,	PUNCT	_	58 stood	punct
57	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	58 stood	expl
58	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 lived	conj
59	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	60 house	det
60	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	58 stood	obj
61	on	on	ADP	_	63 site	case
62	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	63 site	det
63	site	site	NOUN	Number=Sing	58 stood	obl
64	of	of	ADP	_	65 Schloss	case
65	Schloss	Schloss	PROPN	Number=Sing	63 site	nmod
66	Ilsenburg	Ilsenburg	PROPN	Number=Sing	65 Schloss	flat
67	,	,	PUNCT	_	68 inhabited	punct
68	inhabited	inhabit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	58 stood	conj
69	by	by	ADP	_	71 widow	case
70	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	71 widow	det
71	widow	widow	NOUN	Number=Sing	68 inhabited	obl
72	and	and	CCONJ	_	74 daughter	cc
73	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	74 daughter	nmod:poss
74	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	71 widow	conj
75	Trude	Trude	PROPN	Number=Sing	74 daughter	appos
76	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 lived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	past	few men		the earth	time		vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon earth=Location
2	is	past	towns and villages				few property	tree rules
3	separate	participle	towns and villages not said here				widely property	vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
4	be	past	no roads in the mountains		there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	rescue	past · passive	the motherly wolf	Romulus and Remus	the yellow Tiber			vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme
6	fall	past	Nausikaa		love		with Odysseus	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in love=Location
7	stand	past	few men not said here	a house	the site of Schloss; there			vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent house=Theme on site=Destination
8	inhabit	participle	few men not said here				by a widow and Nausikaa's daughter	tree rules

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 11, sentence 102

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Pragmatics

Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 11, sentence 102