Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 15, sentence 38
The river which springs from the mountain on the border of the Gyps mountains is called, in honour of the faithful, loving nymph, the Ruma.
What happens: call, honour · To what, where: river, faithful loving nymph · Speech: someone speaks here
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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 river | det |
| 2 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 called | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 4 springs | det |
| 4 | springs | spring | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 river | appos |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 mountain | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 mountain | det |
| 7 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 springs | nmod |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 border | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 border | det |
| 10 | border | border | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 mountain | nmod |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 mountains | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 mountains | det |
| 13 | Gyps | Gyps | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 mountains | compound |
| 14 | mountains | mountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 border | nmod |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 called | aux:pass |
| 16 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 honour | punct |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 honour | case |
| 19 | honour | honour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 called | xcomp |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 nymph | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 nymph | det |
| 22 | faithful | faithful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 nymph | amod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 faithful | punct |
| 24 | loving | loving | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 nymph | amod |
| 25 | nymph | nymph | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 honour | nmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 Ruma | punct |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 Ruma | det |
| 28 | Ruma | Ruma | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 nymph | appos |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 called | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | present · passive | the river | honour of the faithful loving nymph xcomp | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | honour | the faithful loving nymph | nom honour «state 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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