Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 14, sentence 47
One was a tall, from the weight of years not much bent, grey-headed old man.
Who acts: One · What happens: be, head
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 (One), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 tall | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 tall | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 tall | det |
| 4 | tall | tall | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 weight | punct |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 weight | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 weight | det |
| 8 | weight | weight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 tall | conj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 years | case |
| 10 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 weight | nmod |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 much | advmod |
| 12 | much | much | ADV | _ | 13 bent | advmod |
| 13 | bent | bent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 weight | advcl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 man | punct |
| 15 | grey | grey | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 headed | compound |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 grey | punct |
| 17 | headed | head | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 man | amod |
| 18 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 man | amod |
| 19 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 bent | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 tall | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | One | the weight of years conj; tall property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | head | participle | vn conduct-111.1 «NP V NP»: 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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