Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 11, sentence 6
The most wonderful miracles continued to be performed; the devotees swarmed to the mountain church, so that it was enlarged, and seven doors were cut in its walls.
Who acts: wonderful miracles · What happens: continue, perform, swarm, enlarge, cut · To what, where: devotees, miracle, seven doors, walls
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 (wonderful miracles), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 miracles | det |
| 2 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 3 wonderful | advmod |
| 3 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 miracles | amod |
| 4 | miracles | miracle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 continued | nsubj |
| 5 | continued | continue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 performed | mark |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 performed | aux:pass |
| 8 | performed | perform | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 continued | advcl |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 devotees | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 devotees | det |
| 11 | devotees | devotee | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 continued | obl |
| 12 | swarmed | swarm | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 devotees | acl |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 church | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 church | det |
| 15 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 church | compound |
| 16 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 swarmed | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 enlarged | punct |
| 18 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 22 enlarged | mark |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 so | fixed |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 enlarged | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 enlarged | aux:pass |
| 22 | enlarged | enlarge | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 continued | parataxis |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 cut | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 cut | cc |
| 25 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 26 doors | nummod |
| 26 | doors | door | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 cut | nsubj:pass |
| 27 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 cut | aux:pass |
| 28 | cut | cut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 enlarged | conj |
| 29 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 walls | case |
| 30 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 walls | nmod:poss |
| 31 | walls | wall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 cut | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 continued | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | continue | past | the wonderful miracles | the devotees | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | perform | to-infinitive · passive | the wonderful miracles not said here | vn performance-26.7 «NP V» | |||||
| 3 | swarm | participle | the devotees not said here | to the mountain church | vn swarm-47.5.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | enlarge | past · passive | miracle | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 5 | cut | past · passive | seven doors | miracle's walls | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |
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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