Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 1, sentence 135
These rocks are a firm sandstone with a vein of iron, containing impressions of fossils, shells, and plants, and are sometimes in such forms as to resemble the ruins of castles or human figures.
Who acts: rocks · What happens: be, contain, resemble, impress, ruin · To what, where: firm sandstone, impressions, such forms, ruins, fossils, castles
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 (rocks), 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 | These | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 2 rocks | det |
| 2 | rocks | rock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 sandstone | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 sandstone | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 sandstone | det |
| 5 | firm | firm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 sandstone | amod |
| 6 | sandstone | sandstone | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 vein | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 vein | det |
| 9 | vein | vein | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sandstone | nmod |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 iron | case |
| 11 | iron | iron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 vein | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 containing | punct |
| 13 | containing | contain | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 sandstone | advcl |
| 14 | impressions | impression | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 containing | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 fossils | case |
| 16 | fossils | fossil | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 impressions | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 shells | punct |
| 18 | shells | shell | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 fossils | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 plants | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 plants | cc |
| 21 | plants | plant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 sandstone | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 forms | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 forms | cc |
| 24 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 forms | cop |
| 25 | sometimes | sometimes | ADV | PronType=Ind | 28 forms | advmod |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 forms | case |
| 27 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 forms | amod |
| 28 | forms | form | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 sandstone | conj |
| 29 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 31 resemble | mark |
| 30 | to | to | PART | _ | 31 resemble | mark |
| 31 | resemble | resemble | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 forms | acl |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 ruins | det |
| 33 | ruins | ruin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 resemble | obj |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 castles | case |
| 35 | castles | castle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 ruins | nmod |
| 36 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 38 figures | cc |
| 37 | human | human | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 figures | amod |
| 38 | figures | figure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 castles | conj |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 sandstone | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | this rocks | a firm sandstone and plants and such forms | with a vein of iron; plants conj | tree rules | |||
| 2 | contain | gerund | this rocks not said here | impressions of fossils and shells | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot impression=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | present | this rocks not said here | such forms | sometimes property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | resemble | to-infinitive | this rocks not said here | the ruins of castles or human figures | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | impress | fossils and shells | nom impression «cognition transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 6 | ruin | castles or human figures | nom ruin «state transitive»: of=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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