Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 12, sentence 33

It is even disputed that a person called Hackelberg existed, and if so, the legend is ages older than the sixteenth century, the time when he is said to have lived.

Who acts: person, legend · What happens: dispute, call, exist, be, say, live · To what, where: origin, person · 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 (person, legend), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 disputed	nsubj:pass
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 disputed	aux:pass
3	even	even	ADV	_	4 disputed	advmod
4	disputed	dispute	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 existed	mark
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 person	det
7	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 existed	nsubj
8	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 person	acl
9	Hackelberg	Hackelberg	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 called	xcomp
10	existed	exist	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 disputed	advcl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 older	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 older	cc
13	if	if	SCONJ	_	14 so	mark
14	so	so	ADV	_	20 older	advcl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 older	punct
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 legend	det
17	legend	legend	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 older	nsubj
18	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 older	cop
19	ages	age	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 older	nsubj
20	older	old	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	10 existed	parataxis
21	than	than	ADP	_	24 century	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 century	det
23	sixteenth	sixteenth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 century	amod
24	century	century	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 older	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 time	punct
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 time	det
27	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 century	appos
28	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	31 said	advmod
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 said	nsubj
30	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 said	aux:pass
31	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 time	acl:relcl
32	to	to	PART	_	34 lived	mark
33	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	34 lived	aux
34	lived	live	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	31 said	xcomp
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 disputed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	dispute	present · passive		origin			tree rules
2	call	participle		a person not said here		Hackelberg xcomp	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	exist	past	a person				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	is	present	the legend		ages; century	old property	tree rules
5	say speech: assert	present · passive		person			tree rules
6	live	to-infinitive · perfect					vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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The tree

Pragmatics

Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 12, sentence 33