Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 6, sentence 53
In its walls were housed the first lords of Wernigerode.
What happens: house · To what, where: first lords, walls
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: 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 | _ | 3 walls | case |
| 2 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 walls | nmod:poss |
| 3 | walls | wall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 housed | obl |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 housed | aux:pass |
| 5 | housed | house | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 lords | det |
| 7 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 8 lords | amod |
| 8 | lords | lord | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 housed | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 Wernigerode | case |
| 10 | Wernigerode | Wernigerode | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 lords | nmod |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 housed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | house | past · passive | the first lords of Wernigerode | tower's walls | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: lord=Value in wall=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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