Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 3, sentence 157

There were two castles in the Harz mountains, both of which bore the name of Staufenburg; that near Zorge, an hour and a half from the beautiful ruins of Convent Walkenried.

Who acts: two castles, both · What happens: be, bear, name, ruin · To what, where: name, Staufenburg, Convent

This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (two castles, both), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 were	expl
2	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 castles	nummod
4	castles	castle	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 were	nsubj
5	in	in	ADP	_	8 mountains	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 mountains	det
7	Harz	Harz	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 mountains	compound
8	mountains	mountain	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 castles	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 bore	punct
10	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	13 bore	nsubj
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 which	case
12	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 bore	nsubj
13	bore	bear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 were	conj
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 name	det
15	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 bore	obj
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 Staufenburg	case
17	Staufenburg	Staufenburg	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 name	nmod
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 Zorge	punct
19	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	21 Zorge	nsubj
20	near	near	ADP	_	21 Zorge	case
21	Zorge	Zorge	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 were	parataxis
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 hour	punct
23	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 hour	det
24	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 Zorge	appos
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 half	cc
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 half	det
27	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	21 Zorge	conj
28	from	from	ADP	_	31 ruins	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 ruins	det
30	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 ruins	amod
31	ruins	ruin	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 half	nmod
32	of	of	ADP	_	33 Convent	case
33	Convent	Convent	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 ruins	nmod
34	Walkenried	Walkenried	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 Convent	flat
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 were	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	past	two castles in the Harz mountains		there	Zorge that and a half from the beautiful ruins of Convent parataxis	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	bear	past	both	the name of Staufenburg		which nsubj	vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=Patient
3	name			Staufenburg			nom name «communication transitive»: of=patient
4	ruin			Convent			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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🌲 Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 3, sentence 157

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 3, sentence 157