Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 5, sentence 38
In the mining town Wildemann there is a tradition of a wild man who gave the place its name.
Who acts: tradition, wild man, place · What happens: be, give, name · To what, where: mining town, place
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, wild man, place), 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 town | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 town | det |
| 3 | mining | mining | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 town | compound |
| 4 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 is | obl |
| 5 | Wildemann | Wildemann | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 town | appos |
| 6 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 7 is | expl |
| 7 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 tradition | det |
| 9 | tradition | tradition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 is | nsubj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 man | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 man | det |
| 12 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 man | amod |
| 13 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 tradition | nmod |
| 14 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 gave | nsubj |
| 15 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 man | acl:relcl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 place | det |
| 17 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 gave | obj |
| 18 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 name | nmod:poss |
| 19 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 gave | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 is | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | present | a tradition of a wild man | the mining town; there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in town=Location | ||||
| 2 | give | past | a wild man | the place | place's name obj | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent place=Recipient name=Theme | |||
| 3 | name | place | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=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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