Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 5, sentence 34
In St. Andreasberg the tradition is, he was a monk who sought to open the mines there, but failed.
Who acts: tradition, monk · What happens: be, seek, open, fail · To what, where: monk, Andreasberg, mines
This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tradition, monk), 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 | _ | 3 Andreasberg | case |
| 2 | St. | St. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Andreasberg | nmod:desc |
| 3 | Andreasberg | Andreasberg | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 monk | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 tradition | det |
| 5 | tradition | tradition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 monk | nsubj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 monk | cop |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 is | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 monk | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 monk | cop |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 monk | det |
| 11 | monk | monk | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 12 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 sought | nsubj |
| 13 | sought | seek | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 monk | acl:relcl |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 open | mark |
| 15 | open | open | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 sought | xcomp |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 mines | det |
| 17 | mines | mine | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 open | obj |
| 18 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 open | advmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 failed | punct |
| 20 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 21 failed | cc |
| 21 | failed | fail | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 sought | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 monk | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the tradition | a monk | Andreasberg St. | tree rules | |||
| 2 | seek | past | a monk | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | open not said to happen | to-infinitive | a monk not said here | the mines | there | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location mine=Theme | |||
| 4 | fail | past | a monk not said here | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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