Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 1, sentence 11
Then came a calmer period for the old Staufenburg, as the retired seat of princely widows, and here lived, in the fourteenth century, the Duchess Elizabeth, widow of William the Younger.
What happens: come, live · To what, where: calmer period
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: 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 came | advmod |
| 2 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 period | det |
| 4 | calmer | calm | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 5 period | amod |
| 5 | period | period | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 came | obj |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 Staufenburg | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Staufenburg | det |
| 8 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 Staufenburg | amod |
| 9 | Staufenburg | Staufenburg | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 came | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 seat | punct |
| 11 | as | as | ADP | _ | 14 seat | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 seat | det |
| 13 | retired | retired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 seat | amod |
| 14 | seat | seat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 came | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 widows | case |
| 16 | princely | princely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 widows | amod |
| 17 | widows | widow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 seat | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 lived | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 lived | cc |
| 20 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 21 lived | advmod |
| 21 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 came | parataxis |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 century | punct |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 century | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 century | det |
| 25 | fourteenth | fourteenth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 century | amod |
| 26 | century | century | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 lived | conj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 Elizabeth | punct |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 Elizabeth | det |
| 29 | Duchess | Duchess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 Elizabeth | compound |
| 30 | Elizabeth | Elizabeth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 century | parataxis |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 widow | punct |
| 32 | widow | widow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 Elizabeth | appos |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 William | case |
| 34 | William | William | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 widow | nmod |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 Younger | det |
| 36 | Younger | Younger | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 William | appos |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | a calmer period | then | for the old Staufenburg; as the retired seat of princely widows | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location period=Theme | |||
| 2 | live | past | here | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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