Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 1, sentence 134
This is the backbone of a mountain chain once extending from Blankenburg to Ballenstedt, which has been mostly washed away by the tempests of untold ages.
Who acts: This, backbone, tempests · What happens: be, extend, wash away · To what, where: backbone, Ballenstedt, Blankenburg
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 (This, backbone, tempests), 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 | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 backbone | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 backbone | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 backbone | det |
| 4 | backbone | backbone | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 chain | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 chain | det |
| 7 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 chain | compound |
| 8 | chain | chain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 backbone | nmod |
| 9 | once | once | SCONJ | _ | 10 extending | mark |
| 10 | extending | extend | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 backbone | acl |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 Blankenburg | case |
| 12 | Blankenburg | Blankenburg | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 extending | obl |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 Ballenstedt | case |
| 14 | Ballenstedt | Ballenstedt | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 extending | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 washed | punct |
| 16 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 washed | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 washed | aux |
| 18 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 20 washed | aux:pass |
| 19 | mostly | mostly | ADV | _ | 20 washed | advmod |
| 20 | washed | wash | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 Ballenstedt | acl:relcl |
| 21 | away | away | ADV | _ | 20 washed | advmod |
| 22 | by | by | ADP | _ | 24 tempests | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 tempests | det |
| 24 | tempests | tempest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 washed | obl |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 ages | case |
| 26 | untold | untold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 ages | amod |
| 27 | ages | age | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 tempests | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 backbone | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | This | the backbone | of a mountain chain | tree rules | |||
| 2 | extend | gerund | the backbone not said here | Ballenstedt | Blankenburg | vn contribute-13.2-2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to ballenstedt=Recipient | |||
| 3 | wash away | present · perfect · passive | the tempests of untold ages | Ballenstedt | away, mostly property | vn floss-41.2.1 «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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