Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 11, sentence 112
[1] Night before the first of May, when all evil spirits and witches, according to the legend, meet on the Brocken.
Who acts: evil spirits · What happens: accord, meet · To what, where: Brocken
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 (evil spirits), 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 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 2 1 | punct |
| 2 | 1 | 1 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 Night | discourse |
| 3 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 2 1 | punct |
| 4 | Night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 meet | obl:unmarked |
| 5 | before | before | ADP | _ | 7 first | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 first | det |
| 7 | first | first | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 23 meet | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 May | case |
| 9 | May | May | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 first | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 meet | punct |
| 11 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 23 meet | advmod |
| 12 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 spirits | det |
| 13 | evil | evil | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 spirits | amod |
| 14 | spirits | spirit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 meet | nsubj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 witches | cc |
| 16 | witches | witch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 spirits | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 legend | punct |
| 18 | according | accord | VERB | ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 legend | case |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 according | fixed |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 legend | det |
| 21 | legend | legend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 spirits | appos |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 legend | punct |
| 23 | meet | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 24 | on | on | ADP | _ | 26 Brocken | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 Brocken | det |
| 26 | Brocken | Brocken | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 meet | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 23 meet | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | accord | gerund | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | meet | infinitive | all evil spirits and witches | the Brocken | before the first of May; night | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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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