Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 1, sentence 12
Oblivion at last sits green a couple of centuries in this solitude, till it is chosen as the hiding-place of a sinful love, and wild tales came to be told among the simple mountaineers of a White Lady who haunted the castle.
Who acts: Oblivion, wild tales, simple mountaineers · What happens: sit, choose, come, tell, haunt · To what, where: green couple, solitude, couple, simple mountaineers, castle · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Oblivion, wild tales, simple mountaineers), 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 | Oblivion | Oblivion | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 sits | nsubj |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 3 last | case |
| 3 | last | last | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Oblivion | nmod |
| 4 | sits | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 couple | amod |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 couple | det |
| 7 | couple | couple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sits | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 centuries | case |
| 9 | centuries | century | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 couple | nmod |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 solitude | case |
| 11 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 solitude | det |
| 12 | solitude | solitude | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sits | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 chosen | punct |
| 14 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 17 chosen | mark |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 chosen | nsubj |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 chosen | aux:pass |
| 17 | chosen | choose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 sits | parataxis |
| 18 | as | as | ADP | _ | 22 place | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 place | det |
| 20 | hiding | hiding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 place | compound |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 hiding | punct |
| 22 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 chosen | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 love | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 love | det |
| 25 | sinful | sinful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 love | amod |
| 26 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 place | nmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 came | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 came | cc |
| 29 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 tales | amod |
| 30 | tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 came | nsubj |
| 31 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 sits | conj |
| 32 | to | to | PART | _ | 34 told | mark |
| 33 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 34 told | aux:pass |
| 34 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 31 came | advcl |
| 35 | among | among | ADP | _ | 38 mountaineers | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 mountaineers | det |
| 37 | simple | simple | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 mountaineers | amod |
| 38 | mountaineers | mountaineer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 told | iobj |
| 39 | of | of | ADP | _ | 42 Lady | case |
| 40 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 42 Lady | det |
| 41 | White | White | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 Lady | amod |
| 42 | Lady | Lady | PROPN | Number=Sing | 38 mountaineers | nmod |
| 43 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 44 haunted | nsubj |
| 44 | haunted | haunt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 mountaineers | parataxis |
| 45 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 castle | det |
| 46 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 haunted | obj |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sits | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | present | Oblivion at last | a green couple of centuries | this solitude | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent couple=Theme in solitude=Location | |||
| 2 | choose | present · passive | couple | as the hiding place of a sinful love | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 3 | come | past | wild tales | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | tell speech: assert | to-infinitive · passive | wild tales not said here | the simple mountaineers of a White Lady | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: mountaineer=Recipient | ||||
| 5 | haunt | past | the simple mountaineers of a White Lady | the castle | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus castle=Experiencer |
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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