Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 1, sentence 104
At the foot of these hills, in a semicircle, are seven small springs, which unite themselves in one tiny brooklet, over which the train passes.
Who acts: seven small springs, train · What happens: be, unite, pass · To what, where: seven small springs, foot, hills, one tiny brooklet
This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., 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 (seven small springs, train), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 foot | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 foot | det |
| 3 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 springs | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 hills | case |
| 5 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 6 hills | det |
| 6 | hills | hill | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 foot | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 semicircle | punct |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 semicircle | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 semicircle | det |
| 10 | semicircle | semicircle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 foot | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 foot | punct |
| 12 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 springs | cop |
| 13 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 springs | nummod |
| 14 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 springs | amod |
| 15 | springs | spring | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 unite | punct |
| 17 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 unite | nsubj |
| 18 | unite | unite | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 springs | conj |
| 19 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 18 unite | obj |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 brooklet | case |
| 21 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 23 brooklet | nummod |
| 22 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 brooklet | amod |
| 23 | brooklet | brooklet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 unite | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 passes | punct |
| 25 | over | over | ADP | _ | 26 which | case |
| 26 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 29 passes | obl |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 train | det |
| 28 | train | train | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 passes | nsubj |
| 29 | passes | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 unite | parataxis |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 springs | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | seven small springs | the foot of this hills and a semicircle | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | unite | infinitive | seven small springs | hills = hill | one tiny brooklet | vn amalgamate-22.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Patient | |||
| 3 | pass | present | the train | which obl | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme over which=Location |
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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