Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 14, sentence 100
In the grey days long ago, when paganism ruled the land, there stood on the hills near the cave called the Steinkirche--altars to the gods.
Who acts: paganism · What happens: rule, stand, call · To what, where: land, hills, cave · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (paganism), 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 | _ | 4 days | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 days | det |
| 3 | grey | grey | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 days | amod |
| 4 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 stood | obl |
| 5 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 ago | advmod |
| 6 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 4 days | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 ruled | punct |
| 8 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 ruled | advmod |
| 9 | paganism | paganism | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 ruled | nsubj |
| 10 | ruled | rule | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 ago | advcl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 land | det |
| 12 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 ruled | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 days | punct |
| 14 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 15 stood | expl |
| 15 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 hills | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 hills | det |
| 18 | hills | hill | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 stood | obl |
| 19 | near | near | ADP | _ | 21 cave | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 cave | det |
| 21 | cave | cave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 stood | obl |
| 22 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 cave | acl |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 Steinkirche | det |
| 24 | Steinkirche | Steinkirche | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 called | xcomp |
| 25 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 26 altars | punct |
| 26 | altars | altar | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 cave | conj |
| 27 | to | to | ADP | _ | 29 gods | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 gods | det |
| 29 | gods | god | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 stood | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rule | past | paganism | the land | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent land=Theme | ||||
| 2 | stand | past | the hills; there | day | near the cave and altars; to the gods | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on hill=Location | |||
| 3 | call | participle | the cave and altars not said here | the Steinkirche xcomp | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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