Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 4, sentence 46
There was once a bell-founder in Stolberg who was a master worthy of honour, skilled in counsel and deed.
Who acts: bell founder · What happens: be, skill · To what, where: master worthy, counsel
This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bell founder), 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 was | expl |
| 2 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 2 was | advmod |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 founder | det |
| 5 | bell | bell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 founder | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 bell | punct |
| 7 | founder | founder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 was | nsubj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 Stolberg | case |
| 9 | Stolberg | Stolberg | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 founder | nmod |
| 10 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 worthy | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 worthy | cop |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 worthy | det |
| 13 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 worthy | compound |
| 14 | worthy | worthy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 founder | nmod |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 honour | case |
| 16 | honour | honour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 worthy | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 skilled | punct |
| 18 | skilled | skill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 worthy | acl |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 counsel | case |
| 20 | counsel | counsel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 skilled | obl |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 deed | cc |
| 22 | deed | deed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 counsel | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | a bell founder in Stolberg | there | once property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | is a | past | a bell founder in Stolberg | a master worthy | of honour | tree rules | |||
| 3 | skill | participle | a master worthy not said here | counsel and deed | 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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