Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 16, sentence 3
Here grow mighty firs, whose roots spring from the metal-rich graywacke; there, slender beeches in the clay-slate; yonder, maples with their lovely leaves.
Who acts: you, roots · What happens: grow, spring · To what, where: mighty firs, rich graywacke
This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, roots), 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 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 grow | advmod |
| 2 | grow | grow | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | mighty | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 firs | amod |
| 4 | firs | fir | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 grow | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 spring | punct |
| 6 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 7 roots | nmod:poss |
| 7 | roots | root | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 spring | nsubj |
| 8 | spring | spring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 firs | acl:relcl |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 14 graywacke | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 graywacke | det |
| 11 | metal | metal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 rich | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 metal | punct |
| 13 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 graywacke | amod |
| 14 | graywacke | graywacke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 spring | obl |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 there | punct |
| 16 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 grow | advmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 beeches | punct |
| 18 | slender | slender | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 beeches | amod |
| 19 | beeches | beech | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 grow | obl |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 slate | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 slate | det |
| 22 | clay | clay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 slate | compound |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 clay | punct |
| 24 | slate | slate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 beeches | nmod |
| 25 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 maples | punct |
| 26 | yonder | yonder | ADV | _ | 28 maples | advmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 yonder | punct |
| 28 | maples | maple | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 grow | obl |
| 29 | with | with | ADP | _ | 32 leaves | case |
| 30 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 leaves | nmod:poss |
| 31 | lovely | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 leaves | amod |
| 32 | leaves | leaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 maples | nmod |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 grow | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | imperative | you not said here | mighty firs | here; there | slender beeches in the clay slate obl; maples with roots's lovely leaves obl | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location fir=Theme | ||
| 2 | spring | present | roots | the rich graywacke | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from graywacke=Trajectory |
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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