Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 15, sentence 14
Thus was formed in the rugged, steep cliff the primeval cave, the Steinkirche, the meeting-place of the first Christians of this neighbourhood.
What happens: form · To what, where: rugged steep cliff
This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 15. 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 | Thus | thus | ADV | _ | 3 formed | advmod |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 formed | aux:pass |
| 3 | formed | form | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 cliff | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 cliff | det |
| 6 | rugged | rugged | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 cliff | amod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 rugged | punct |
| 8 | steep | steep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 cliff | amod |
| 9 | cliff | cliff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 formed | obl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 cave | det |
| 11 | primeval | primeval | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 cave | compound |
| 12 | cave | cave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 cliff | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 Steinkirche | punct |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Steinkirche | det |
| 15 | Steinkirche | Steinkirche | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 cave | appos |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 place | punct |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 place | det |
| 18 | meeting | meeting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 place | compound |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 meeting | punct |
| 20 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 Steinkirche | appos |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 Christians | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 Christians | det |
| 23 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 24 Christians | amod |
| 24 | Christians | Christian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 20 place | nmod |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 neighbourhood | case |
| 26 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 27 neighbourhood | det |
| 27 | neighbourhood | neighbourhood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 Christians | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 formed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | form | past · passive | the rugged steep cliff the primeval cave | thus property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: in cliff=Location |
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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