Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 15, sentence 80
Not long after the destruction of the Burg, a poor woman in a neighbouring village fell ill.
What happens: neighbour, fall, destroy · To what, where: Burg
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 | Not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 2 long | advmod |
| 2 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 17 fell | advmod |
| 3 | after | after | ADP | _ | 5 destruction | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 destruction | det |
| 5 | destruction | destruction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 fell | obl |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 Burg | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Burg | det |
| 8 | Burg | Burg | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 destruction | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 woman | punct |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 woman | det |
| 11 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 woman | amod |
| 12 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 Burg | appos |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 village | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 village | det |
| 15 | neighbouring | neighbour | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 village | amod |
| 16 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 woman | nmod |
| 17 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 fell | xcomp |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 fell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | neighbour | gerund | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | fall | past | after the destruction of the Burg | ill, long property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | destroy | the Burg | nom destruction «act 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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