Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 15, sentence 78
All sank in the gulf, which closed again, and nothing was left of the castle but a deep round spot where it had stood.
Who acts: gulf · What happens: sink, close, leave, stand · To what, where: gulf, nothing, tower
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 (gulf), 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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 sank | advmod |
| 2 | sank | sink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 gulf | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 gulf | det |
| 5 | gulf | gulf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 sank | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 closed | punct |
| 7 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 closed | nsubj |
| 8 | closed | close | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 gulf | acl:relcl |
| 9 | again | again | ADV | _ | 8 closed | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 left | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 left | cc |
| 12 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 14 left | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 left | aux:pass |
| 14 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 sank | conj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 castle | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 castle | det |
| 17 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 left | obl |
| 18 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 22 spot | cc |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 spot | det |
| 20 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 spot | amod |
| 21 | round | round | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 spot | amod |
| 22 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 castle | conj |
| 23 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 26 stood | advmod |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 stood | nsubj:pass |
| 25 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 stood | aux |
| 26 | stood | stand | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 spot | acl:relcl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 sank | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sink | past | the gulf | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 2 | close | past | the gulf | again | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | leave | past · passive | nothing | of the castle but a deep round spot | vn leave-51.2-1 «NP V NP.initial_location PP.destination»: subject=Source of castle=Destination | ||||
| 4 | stand | past · perfect · passive | tower | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus |
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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