Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 5, sentence 45
In the grey primeval days dwelt in this savage wilderness a mighty hunter, hard and rough as the rocks on which his house stood.
Who acts: house · What happens: dwell, stand · To what, where: mighty hunter, savage wilderness, rocks
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 (house), 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 | _ | 5 days | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 days | det |
| 3 | grey | grey | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 days | amod |
| 4 | primeval | primeval | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 days | compound |
| 5 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 dwelt | obl |
| 6 | dwelt | dwell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 wilderness | case |
| 8 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 wilderness | det |
| 9 | savage | savage | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 wilderness | amod |
| 10 | wilderness | wilderness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 dwelt | obl |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 hunter | det |
| 12 | mighty | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 hunter | amod |
| 13 | hunter | hunter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 dwelt | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 hard | punct |
| 15 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 dwelt | parataxis |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 rough | cc |
| 17 | rough | rough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 hard | conj |
| 18 | as | as | ADP | _ | 20 rocks | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 rocks | det |
| 20 | rocks | rock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 hard | obl |
| 21 | on | on | ADP | _ | 22 which | case |
| 22 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 stood | obl |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 house | nmod:poss |
| 24 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 stood | nsubj |
| 25 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 rocks | acl:relcl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 dwelt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dwell | past | a mighty hunter | this savage wilderness | day | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme hunter=Location | |||
| 2 | stand | past | St.'s house | the rocks | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on which=Location |
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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