Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 1, sentence 7

Many of these ruins on the borders of the Harz mountains remind us of Henry the Fowler, who built them to defend the plains and homes of this part of Germany from the wild and lawless Huns.

Who acts: Many, Fowler · What happens: remind, build, defend · To what, where: us, ruins, plains

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 (Many, Fowler), 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	Many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 remind	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	4 ruins	case
3	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	4 ruins	det
4	ruins	ruin	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Many	nmod
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 borders	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 borders	det
7	borders	border	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 ruins	nmod
8	of	of	ADP	_	11 mountains	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 mountains	det
10	Harz	Harz	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 mountains	compound
11	mountains	mountain	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 borders	nmod
12	remind	remind	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 remind	iobj
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 Henry	case
15	Henry	Henry	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 remind	obl
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 Fowler	det
17	Fowler	fowler	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 Henry	appos
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 built	punct
19	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 built	nsubj
20	built	build	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 Fowler	acl:relcl
21	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 built	obj
22	to	to	PART	_	23 defend	mark
23	defend	defend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 built	advcl
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 plains	det
25	plains	plain	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 defend	obj
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 homes	cc
27	homes	home	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 plains	conj
28	of	of	ADP	_	30 part	case
29	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	30 part	det
30	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 plains	nmod
31	of	of	ADP	_	32 Germany	case
32	Germany	Germany	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 part	nmod
33	from	from	ADP	_	35 wild	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 wild	det
35	wild	wild	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 defend	obl
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 Huns	cc
37	lawless	lawless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 Huns	amod
38	Huns	Hun	PROPN	Number=Plur	35 wild	conj
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 remind	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	remind speech: other	present	Many of this ruins on the borders of the Harz mountains		us	of Henry	vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient PP.topic»: agent=Agent we=Recipient of henry=Topic
2	build	past	the Fowler	ruins = ruin			vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Product
3	defend	to-infinitive	the Fowler not said here	the plains of this part of Germany and homes		from the wild and lawless Huns	vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent plain=Beneficiary from wild=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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🌲 Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 1, sentence 7

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 1, sentence 7