Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 14, sentence 39
On a flying buttress of the colossal Marienkirche, in Mühlhausen, are three stone partridges, and I am about to explain to you how they came there.
Who acts: I, Partridges · What happens: fly, be, explain, come · To what, where: three stone partridges, flying buttress, you
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 (I, Partridges), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 4 buttress | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 buttress | det |
| 3 | flying | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 buttress | amod |
| 4 | buttress | buttress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 partridges | obl |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 Marienkirche | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Marienkirche | det |
| 7 | colossal | colossal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 Marienkirche | amod |
| 8 | Marienkirche | Marienkirche | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 buttress | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 Mühlhausen | punct |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 Mühlhausen | case |
| 11 | Mühlhausen | Mühlhausen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Marienkirche | flat |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 buttress | punct |
| 13 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 partridges | cop |
| 14 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 partridges | nummod |
| 15 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 partridges | compound |
| 16 | partridges | partridge | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 explain | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 explain | cc |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 explain | nsubj |
| 20 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 explain | aux |
| 21 | about | about | SCONJ | _ | 23 explain | mark |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 explain | mark |
| 23 | explain | explain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 partridges | parataxis |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 you | case |
| 25 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 explain | obl |
| 26 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 28 came | advmod |
| 27 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 came | nsubj |
| 28 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 explain | advcl |
| 29 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 28 came | advmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 partridges | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly | gerund | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | is a | present | three stone partridges | a flying buttress of the colossal Marienkirche | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | explain speech: assert | present | I | you | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V PP.recipient how S»: agent=Agent to you=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | come | past | Partridges = partridge | there | vn escape-51.1-1 «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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