Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 2, sentence 97
This imperial convent Gandersheim, once endowed with such wealth and power, was founded by Duke Ludolf of Saxony in the last half of the ninth century.
Who acts: Duke Ludolf · What happens: endow, found · To what, where: imperial convent, last half
This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Duke Ludolf), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 convent | det |
| 2 | imperial | imperial | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 convent | amod |
| 3 | convent | convent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 founded | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | Gandersheim | Gandersheim | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 convent | appos |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 endowed | punct |
| 6 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 7 endowed | advmod |
| 7 | endowed | endow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 convent | acl |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 wealth | case |
| 9 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 wealth | amod |
| 10 | wealth | wealth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 endowed | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 power | cc |
| 12 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 wealth | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 convent | punct |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 founded | aux:pass |
| 15 | founded | found | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 16 | by | by | ADP | _ | 18 Ludolf | case |
| 17 | Duke | Duke | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Ludolf | compound |
| 18 | Ludolf | Ludolf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 founded | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 Saxony | case |
| 20 | Saxony | Saxony | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Ludolf | nmod |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 half | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 half | det |
| 23 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 half | amod |
| 24 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 15 founded | obl |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 century | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 century | det |
| 27 | ninth | ninth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 century | amod |
| 28 | century | century | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 half | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 founded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | endow | participle | this imperial convent not said here | with such wealth and power; once property | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with wealth=Theme | ||||
| 2 | found | past · passive | Duke Ludolf of Saxony | this imperial convent | the last half of the ninth century | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=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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