Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 1, sentence 1

On one of the border mountains, on the western slopes of the Harz, in gloomy desolation, rise the grey ruins of the old Schloss Staufenburg, which still remind us of a most romantic though sad history.

Who acts: one · What happens: rise, remind, ruin · To what, where: grey ruins, western slopes, old Schloss, us

This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one), 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	On	on	ADP	_	2 one	case
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	20 rise	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 mountains	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 mountains	det
5	border	border	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 mountains	compound
6	mountains	mountain	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 one	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 one	punct
8	on	on	ADP	_	11 slopes	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 slopes	det
10	western	western	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 slopes	amod
11	slopes	slope	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 rise	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 Harz	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Harz	det
14	Harz	Harz	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 slopes	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 desolation	punct
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 desolation	case
17	gloomy	gloomy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 desolation	amod
18	desolation	desolation	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 Harz	appos
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 slopes	punct
20	rise	rise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 ruins	det
22	grey	grey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 ruins	amod
23	ruins	ruin	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 rise	obj
24	of	of	ADP	_	27 Schloss	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 Schloss	det
26	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 Schloss	amod
27	Schloss	schloss	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 ruins	nmod
28	Staufenburg	Staufenburg	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 Schloss	appos
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 remind	punct
30	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 remind	obj
31	still	still	ADV	_	32 remind	advmod
32	remind	remind	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 Schloss	conj
33	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	32 remind	iobj
34	of	of	ADP	_	37 romantic	case
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 romantic	det
36	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	37 romantic	advmod
37	romantic	romantic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 remind	obl
38	though	though	SCONJ	_	40 history	mark
39	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 history	amod
40	history	history	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 romantic	advcl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	20 rise	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rise	infinitive	one of the border mountains	the grey ruins of the old Schloss		the western slopes of the Harz			vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location ruin=Theme
2	remind speech: other	present	one of the border mountains not said here	the old Schloss	us		still	of a romantic sad history	tree rules
3	ruin			the old Schloss					nom ruin «state 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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🌲 Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 1, sentence 1

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 1, sentence 1