Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 14, sentence 105
Then came from a southern land a hermit to this district.
What happens: come · To what, where: hermit, southern land
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: 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 came | advmod |
| 2 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 land | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 land | det |
| 5 | southern | southern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 land | amod |
| 6 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 came | obl |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 hermit | det |
| 8 | hermit | hermit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 came | obl |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 district | case |
| 10 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 district | det |
| 11 | district | district | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 came | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | a hermit | a southern land | then | to this district | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme from land=Initial_Location to district=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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