Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 12, sentence 23
In a Kloster in Thuringia lived, in the primeval days of convents, a nun called Ursel--Ursula--who always disturbed the choir of nuns by her howling singing; hence she was called Tut-Ursel.
Who acts: Kloster, Ursel, howling · What happens: live, call, disturb, sing, howl · To what, where: nun, choir, Kloster · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Kloster, Ursel, howling), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 Kloster | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 Kloster | det |
| 3 | Kloster | Kloster | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 lived | nsubj |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 Thuringia | case |
| 5 | Thuringia | Thuringia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Kloster | nmod |
| 6 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 days | punct |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 days | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 days | det |
| 10 | primeval | primeval | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 days | compound |
| 11 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 lived | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 convents | case |
| 13 | convents | convent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 days | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 nun | punct |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 nun | det |
| 16 | nun | nun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lived | obl |
| 17 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 nun | acl |
| 18 | Ursel | Ursel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 called | xcomp |
| 19 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 20 Ursula | punct |
| 20 | Ursula | Ursula | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Ursel | nmod:unmarked |
| 21 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 24 disturbed | punct |
| 22 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 disturbed | nsubj |
| 23 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 24 disturbed | advmod |
| 24 | disturbed | disturb | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 Ursel | acl:relcl |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 choir | det |
| 26 | choir | choir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 disturbed | obj |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 nuns | case |
| 28 | nuns | nun | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 choir | nmod |
| 29 | by | by | ADP | _ | 31 howling | case |
| 30 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 howling | nmod:poss |
| 31 | howling | howling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 disturbed | obl |
| 32 | singing | sing | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 31 howling | acl |
| 33 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 37 called | punct |
| 34 | hence | hence | ADV | _ | 37 called | advmod |
| 35 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 called | nsubj:pass |
| 36 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 called | aux:pass |
| 37 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 lived | parataxis |
| 38 | Tut | Tut | PROPN | Number=Sing | 37 called | xcomp |
| 39 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 38 Tut | punct |
| 40 | Ursel | Ursel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 38 Tut | flat |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 lived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past | a Kloster in Thuringia | a nun | day | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | call | participle | a nun not said here | Ursel Ursula xcomp | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | disturb | past | Ursel Ursula | the choir of nuns | by Kloster's howling; always property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus choir=Experiencer | |||
| 4 | sing speech: express | gerund | Kloster's howling not said here | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | call | past · passive | Kloster | Tut xcomp; hence property | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | ||||
| 6 | howl | Kloster | nom howling «communication intransitive»: poss=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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