Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 1, sentence 2
Home-like, and at the same time sublime, silent, and solitary, must have been this now destroyed seat of kaisers and princes in the mysterious Middle Ages.
What happens: destroy, be · To what, where: destroyed seat
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 | Home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 like | compound |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 Home | punct |
| 3 | like | like | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 seat | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 seat | cc |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 time | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 time | det |
| 8 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 time | amod |
| 9 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 seat | obl |
| 10 | sublime | sublime | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 time | amod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 silent | punct |
| 12 | silent | silent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 sublime | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 solitary | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 solitary | cc |
| 15 | solitary | solitary | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sublime | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 time | punct |
| 17 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 seat | aux |
| 18 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 23 seat | aux |
| 19 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 23 seat | cop |
| 20 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 23 seat | det |
| 21 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 22 destroyed | advmod |
| 22 | destroyed | destroy | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 seat | amod |
| 23 | seat | seat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 like | conj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 kaisers | case |
| 25 | kaisers | kaiser | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 seat | nmod |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 princes | cc |
| 27 | princes | prince | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 kaisers | conj |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 32 Ages | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 Ages | det |
| 30 | mysterious | mysterious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 Ages | amod |
| 31 | Middle | Middle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 Ages | flat |
| 32 | Ages | Age | PROPN | Number=Plur | 25 kaisers | nmod |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 like | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | destroy | participle | now | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a | must · perfect | this destroyed seat | now; time | of kaisers in the mysterious Middle Ages and princes | tree rules |
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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