Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 14, sentence 35
[1] In Germany an annual festival is held in commemoration of the dedication of the church of the place, called the _Kirchweihfest_--dedication festival.
What happens: hold, call, commemorate · To what, where: annual festival, commemoration, dedication · 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: 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 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 2 1 | punct |
| 2 | 1 | 1 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 10 held | discourse |
| 3 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 2 1 | punct |
| 4 | In | in | ADP | _ | 5 Germany | case |
| 5 | Germany | Germany | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 1 | nmod |
| 6 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 festival | det |
| 7 | annual | annual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 festival | amod |
| 8 | festival | festival | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 held | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 held | aux:pass |
| 10 | held | hold | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 commemoration | case |
| 12 | commemoration | commemoration | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 held | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 dedication | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 dedication | det |
| 15 | dedication | dedication | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 commemoration | nmod |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 church | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 church | det |
| 18 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 dedication | nmod |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 place | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 place | det |
| 21 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 church | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 called | punct |
| 23 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 dedication | acl |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 Kirchweihfest | det |
| 25 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 26 Kirchweihfest | punct |
| 26 | Kirchweihfest | Kirchweihfest | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 called | xcomp |
| 27 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 26 Kirchweihfest | punct |
| 28 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 30 festival | punct |
| 29 | dedication | dedication | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 festival | compound |
| 30 | festival | festival | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 commemoration | conj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 held | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hold | present · passive | a annual festival | commemoration of the dedication of the church of the place and dedication festival | 1 in Germany discourse | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme in commemoration=Location | |||
| 2 | call | participle | the dedication of the church of the place not said here | the Kirchweihfest xcomp | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | commemorate | the dedication of the church of the place | nom commemoration «event transitive»: of=patient |
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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