Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 1, sentence 105
On the summit of one of these hills once stood seven trees called the Seven Brothers, of which now no trace remains.
Who acts: trace · What happens: stand, call, remain · To what, where: seven trees, summit · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (trace), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 3 summit | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 summit | det |
| 3 | summit | summit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 stood | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 one | case |
| 5 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 summit | nmod |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 hills | case |
| 7 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 8 hills | det |
| 8 | hills | hill | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 one | nmod |
| 9 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 10 stood | advmod |
| 10 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 trees | nummod |
| 12 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 stood | obj |
| 13 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 trees | acl |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Brothers | det |
| 15 | Seven | Seven | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Brothers | compound |
| 16 | Brothers | Brother | PROPN | Number=Plur | 13 called | xcomp |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 remains | punct |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 which | case |
| 19 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 remains | obl |
| 20 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 23 remains | advmod |
| 21 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 22 trace | det |
| 22 | trace | trace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 remains | nsubj |
| 23 | remains | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 stood | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | seven trees | the summit of one of this hills | once property | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent tree=Theme on summit=Destination | |||
| 2 | call | participle | seven trees not said here | the Seven Brothers xcomp | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | remain | present | no trace | now | which obl | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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