Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 11, sentence 116
From the Brocken broke a terrible tempest.
What happens: break · To what, where: terrible tempest
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: 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 | From | from | ADP | _ | 3 Brocken | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Brocken | det |
| 3 | Brocken | Brocken | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 broke | obl |
| 4 | broke | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 tempest | det |
| 6 | terrible | terrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 tempest | amod |
| 7 | tempest | tempest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 broke | obj |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 broke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | break | past | a terrible tempest | from the Brocken | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent tempest=Patient from brocken=Co-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.
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