Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 6, sentence 52
The mountain called the Haarburg, which has a summit of only small circumference, bore in a long-forgotten time a fortress, which, like most ancient castles, consisted of a single strong tower.
Who acts: mountain · What happens: call, have, forget, consist · To what, where: mountain, summit, most ancient castles · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mountain), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 mountain | det |
| 2 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 has | nsubj |
| 3 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 mountain | acl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Haarburg | det |
| 5 | Haarburg | Haarburg | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 called | xcomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 has | punct |
| 7 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 has | nsubj |
| 8 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 summit | det |
| 10 | summit | summit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 has | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 circumference | case |
| 12 | only | only | ADV | _ | 14 circumference | advmod |
| 13 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 circumference | amod |
| 14 | circumference | circumference | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 summit | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 bore | punct |
| 16 | bore | bore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 circumference | appos |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 time | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 time | det |
| 19 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 forgotten | amod |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 long | punct |
| 21 | forgotten | forget | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 time | amod |
| 22 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 bore | nmod |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 fortress | det |
| 24 | fortress | fortress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 time | appos |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 castles | punct |
| 26 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 31 castles | nsubj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 which | punct |
| 28 | like | like | ADP | _ | 31 castles | case |
| 29 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 31 castles | amod |
| 30 | ancient | ancient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 castles | amod |
| 31 | castles | castle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 fortress | conj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 consisted | punct |
| 33 | consisted | consist | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 31 castles | acl |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 tower | case |
| 35 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 38 tower | det |
| 36 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 tower | amod |
| 37 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 tower | amod |
| 38 | tower | tower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 consisted | obl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 has | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | participle | the mountain not said here | the Haarburg xcomp | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | have | present | the mountain | a summit of small circumference | which nsubj | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent summit=Patient | |||
| 3 | forget | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | consist | participle | most ancient castles a fortress and most ancient castles a fortress and most ancient castles not said here | of a single strong tower | 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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