Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 15, sentence 42
Not far from the Lautenthal there existed in the pre-historic times the Schloss Schiltberg, or Schildberg, of whose builders, destroyers, and history we know next to nothing.
Who acts: we · What happens: exist, know · To what, where: Lautenthal, history
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: who acts (we), 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 | Not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 2 far | advmod |
| 2 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 existed | advmod |
| 3 | from | from | ADP | _ | 5 Lautenthal | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Lautenthal | det |
| 5 | Lautenthal | Lautenthal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 existed | obl |
| 6 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 existed | advmod |
| 7 | existed | exist | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 times | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 times | det |
| 10 | pre-historic | pre-historic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 times | amod |
| 11 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 existed | obl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Schiltberg | det |
| 13 | Schloss | schloss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 Schiltberg | nmod:desc |
| 14 | Schiltberg | Schiltberg | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 times | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 Schildberg | punct |
| 16 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 17 Schildberg | cc |
| 17 | Schildberg | Schildberg | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Schiltberg | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 builders | punct |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 builders | case |
| 20 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 21 builders | nmod:poss |
| 21 | builders | builder | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 Schiltberg | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 destroyers | punct |
| 23 | destroyers | destroyer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 Schiltberg | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 know | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 know | cc |
| 26 | history | history | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 know | obl |
| 27 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 28 know | nsubj |
| 28 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 existed | parataxis |
| 29 | next | next | ADV | _ | 28 know | advmod |
| 30 | to | to | ADP | _ | 31 nothing | case |
| 31 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 28 know | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 existed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | exist | past | the Lautenthal; there | time | far property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | know | present | we | history | to nothing; next property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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