Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 5, sentence 44
A legend of this gloomy wild mountain, at the base of which one drives from Clausthal to St. Andreasburg, lingers still with a poetic charm on and around its rocky walls, and is in harmony with its decorations.
Who acts: one · What happens: drive, be · To what, where: St., Clausthal, harmony, legend
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 (one), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 legend | det |
| 2 | legend | legend | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 mountain | case |
| 4 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 mountain | nsubj |
| 5 | gloomy | gloomy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 mountain | amod |
| 6 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 mountain | amod |
| 7 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 legend | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 base | punct |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 base | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 base | det |
| 11 | base | base | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 legend | conj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 which | case |
| 13 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 drives | obl |
| 14 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 drives | nsubj |
| 15 | drives | drive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 base | acl:relcl |
| 16 | from | from | ADP | _ | 17 Clausthal | case |
| 17 | Clausthal | Clausthal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 drives | obl |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 St. | case |
| 19 | St. | St. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 drives | obl |
| 20 | Andreasburg | Andreasburg | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 St. | flat |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 lingers | punct |
| 22 | lingers | linger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 legend | conj |
| 23 | still | still | ADV | _ | 27 charm | advmod |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 27 charm | case |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 charm | det |
| 26 | poetic | poetic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 charm | amod |
| 27 | charm | charm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 legend | conj |
| 28 | on | on | ADP | _ | 33 walls | case |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 around | cc |
| 30 | around | around | ADP | _ | 28 on | conj |
| 31 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 walls | nmod:poss |
| 32 | rocky | rocky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 walls | amod |
| 33 | walls | wall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 charm | nmod |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 harmony | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 harmony | cc |
| 36 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 38 harmony | cop |
| 37 | in | in | ADP | _ | 38 harmony | case |
| 38 | harmony | harmony | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 legend | conj |
| 39 | with | with | ADP | _ | 41 decorations | case |
| 40 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 41 decorations | nmod:poss |
| 41 | decorations | decoration | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 harmony | nmod |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 legend | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drive | present | one | St. | Clausthal | of the base | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent of which=Trajectory | ||
| 2 | is | present | harmony | with harmony's decorations | 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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