Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 4, sentence 72
In the Goslar Cathedral, of which now but a small remnant remains, once existed a colossal wooden statue of this renowned Saint with the Christ-Child on his back.
Who acts: Goslar Cathedral · What happens: remains, exist · To what, where: colossal wooden statue, Goslar Cathedral
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 (Goslar Cathedral), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 Cathedral | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Cathedral | det |
| 3 | Goslar | Goslar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Cathedral | compound |
| 4 | Cathedral | Cathedral | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 existed | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 remains | punct |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 which | case |
| 7 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 remains | nsubj |
| 8 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 remains | advmod |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 remains | cc |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 remains | det |
| 11 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 remains | amod |
| 12 | remnant | remnant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 remains | amod |
| 13 | remains | remains | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 4 Cathedral | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 Cathedral | punct |
| 15 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 16 existed | advmod |
| 16 | existed | exist | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 statue | det |
| 18 | colossal | colossal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 statue | amod |
| 19 | wooden | wooden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 statue | amod |
| 20 | statue | statue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 existed | obj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 Saint | case |
| 22 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 24 Saint | nsubj |
| 23 | renowned | renowned | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 Saint | amod |
| 24 | Saint | Saint | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 statue | nmod |
| 25 | with | with | ADP | _ | 29 Child | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 Child | det |
| 27 | Christ | Christ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 Child | compound |
| 28 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 27 Christ | punct |
| 29 | Child | Child | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 existed | obl |
| 30 | on | on | ADP | _ | 32 back | case |
| 31 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 back | nmod:poss |
| 32 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 existed | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 existed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remains | the Goslar Cathedral but a small remnant remains | now | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | exist | past | a colossal wooden statue of renowned Saint this | the Goslar Cathedral but a small remnant remains | with the Christ Child; on child's back; once property | 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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