Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 1, sentence 8
This was one of those terrible giants who inhabited North Europe.
Who acts: This, terrible giants · What happens: be, inhabit · To what, where: one, North Europe
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, terrible giants), 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 | 3 one | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 one | cop |
| 3 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 giants | case |
| 5 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 7 giants | det |
| 6 | terrible | terrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 giants | amod |
| 7 | giants | giant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 one | nmod |
| 8 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 inhabited | nsubj |
| 9 | inhabited | inhabit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 giants | acl:relcl |
| 10 | North | North | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Europe | compound |
| 11 | Europe | Europe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 inhabited | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 one | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | This | one | of that terrible giants | tree rules | |||
| 2 | inhabit | past | that terrible giants | North Europe | tree rules |
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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