Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 5, sentence 85
On the spot where the few houses forming Dorf Neuhof now stand lay, centuries ago, a farmhouse built of stone and ornamented with oddly-twisted chimneys.
Who acts: few houses · What happens: form, stand, lay, build, ornament · To what, where: Dorf, spot, farmhouse
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 (few houses), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 3 spot | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 spot | det |
| 3 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 stand | obl |
| 4 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 12 stand | advmod |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 houses | det |
| 6 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 houses | amod |
| 7 | houses | house | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 stand | nsubj |
| 8 | forming | form | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 houses | acl |
| 9 | Dorf | Dorf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 forming | obj |
| 10 | Neuhof | Neuhof | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Dorf | flat |
| 11 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 forming | advmod |
| 12 | stand | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | lay | lay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 stand | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 centuries | punct |
| 15 | centuries | century | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 lay | obl |
| 16 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 13 lay | advmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 farmhouse | punct |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 farmhouse | det |
| 19 | farmhouse | farmhouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 lay | obl |
| 20 | built | build | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 farmhouse | acl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 stone | case |
| 22 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 built | obl |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 ornamented | cc |
| 24 | ornamented | ornament | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 built | conj |
| 25 | with | with | ADP | _ | 29 chimneys | case |
| 26 | oddly | oddly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 twisted | amod |
| 27 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 26 oddly | punct |
| 28 | twisted | twisted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 chimneys | amod |
| 29 | chimneys | chimney | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 ornamented | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 stand | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | form | gerund | the few houses not said here | Dorf | now | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location dorf=Theme | |||
| 2 | stand | present | the few houses | the spot | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on spot=Location | ||||
| 3 | lay | infinitive | the few houses not said here | a farmhouse | century | ago property | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||
| 4 | build | participle | a farmhouse not said here | of stone | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 5 | ornament | participle | with twisted chimneys | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with chimney=Theme |
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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