Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 11, sentence 27
But before they had reached that witch-haunted mountain, and just when standing on the rocky wall connecting the Ilsenstein with the Westerberg, the rock on which they stood was rent asunder in order to separate the lovers, whereupon they both leaped together into the floods.
Who acts: legends, connecting · What happens: reach, haunt, stand, connect, rend, separate · To what, where: haunted mountain, rocky wall, Ilsenstein, rock, asunder, order
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 (legends, connecting), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 reached | cc |
| 2 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 5 reached | mark |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 reached | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 reached | aux |
| 5 | reached | reach | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 mountain | det |
| 7 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 haunted | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 witch | punct |
| 9 | haunted | haunt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 mountain | amod |
| 10 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 reached | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 standing | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 standing | cc |
| 13 | just | just | ADV | _ | 15 standing | advmod |
| 14 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 15 standing | advmod |
| 15 | standing | stand | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 reached | advcl |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 wall | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 wall | det |
| 18 | rocky | rocky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 wall | amod |
| 19 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 standing | obl |
| 20 | connecting | connect | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 34 rent | csubj:pass |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 Ilsenstein | det |
| 22 | Ilsenstein | Ilsenstein | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 connecting | obj |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 Westerberg | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 Westerberg | det |
| 25 | Westerberg | Westerberg | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 connecting | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 rock | punct |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 rock | det |
| 28 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 Westerberg | appos |
| 29 | on | on | ADP | _ | 30 which | case |
| 30 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 32 stood | obl |
| 31 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 stood | nsubj |
| 32 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 rock | acl |
| 33 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 rent | aux:pass |
| 34 | rent | rend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 standing | advcl |
| 35 | asunder | asunder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 rent | obj |
| 36 | in | in | ADP | _ | 37 order | case |
| 37 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 rent | obl |
| 38 | to | to | PART | _ | 39 separate | mark |
| 39 | separate | separate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 34 rent | advcl |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 lovers | det |
| 41 | lovers | lover | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 separate | obj |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 leaped | punct |
| 43 | whereupon | whereupon | ADV | PronType=Int | 46 leaped | advmod |
| 44 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 46 leaped | nsubj |
| 45 | both | both | ADV | _ | 46 leaped | advmod |
| 46 | leaped | leap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 41 lovers | acl:relcl |
| 47 | together | together | ADV | _ | 46 leaped | advmod |
| 48 | into | into | ADP | _ | 50 floods | case |
| 49 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 50 floods | det |
| 50 | floods | flood | NOUN | Number=Plur | 46 leaped | obl |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 reached | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | past · perfect | legends = legend | that haunted mountain | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent mountain=Theme | ||||
| 2 | haunt | participle | witch compound | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | stand | gerund | legends = legend not said here | the rocky wall | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on wall=Location | ||||
| 4 | connect | gerund | the Ilsenstein | with the Westerberg | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent ilsenstein=Patient with westerberg=Co-Patient | ||||
| 5 | stand | past | legends = legend | the rock | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on which=Location | ||||
| 6 | rend | past · passive | connecting | asunder | order | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: asunder=Patient | |||
| 7 | separate | to-infinitive | connecting not said here | the lovers | vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lover=Patient | ||||
| 8 | leap | past | legends = legend | the floods | both, together, whereupon property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into flood=Destination |
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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