Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 15, sentence 61
To the grave of the hermit is the ghostly ride, and there, a grey, bleeding shadow, stands the murdered old man.
Who acts: murdered old man · What happens: be, bleed, stand, murder · To what, where: ghostly ride
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 (murdered old man), 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 | To | to | ADP | _ | 3 grave | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 grave | det |
| 3 | grave | grave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 ride | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 hermit | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 hermit | det |
| 6 | hermit | hermit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 grave | nmod |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 ride | cop |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 ride | det |
| 9 | ghostly | ghostly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 ride | amod |
| 10 | ride | ride | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 there | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 there | cc |
| 13 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 ride | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 shadow | punct |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 shadow | det |
| 16 | grey | grey | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 shadow | amod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 bleeding | punct |
| 18 | bleeding | bleed | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 19 shadow | amod |
| 19 | shadow | shadow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 ride | parataxis |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 stands | punct |
| 21 | stands | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 ride | parataxis |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 man | det |
| 23 | murdered | murder | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 man | amod |
| 24 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 man | amod |
| 25 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 stands | nsubj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 ride | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the ghostly ride | there | to the grave of the hermit; a grey bleeding shadow parataxis | tree rules | |||
| 2 | bleed | gerund | vn substance_emission-43.4-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Source | ||||||
| 3 | stand | present | the murdered old man | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | murder | participle | vn murder-42.1 «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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