Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 6, sentence 55
For centuries the occupants of the Haarburg felt themselves happy in the grey giant tower, until a Graf Bodo dwelt in it.
Who acts: occupants, Graf Bodo · What happens: feel, dwell · To what, where: occupants, grey giant tower, tower
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 (occupants, Graf Bodo), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 2 centuries | case |
| 2 | centuries | century | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 felt | obl |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 occupants | det |
| 4 | occupants | occupant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 felt | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 Haarburg | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Haarburg | det |
| 7 | Haarburg | Haarburg | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 occupants | nmod |
| 8 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 8 felt | obj |
| 10 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 felt | xcomp |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 tower | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 tower | det |
| 13 | grey | grey | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 tower | amod |
| 14 | giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 tower | amod |
| 15 | tower | tower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 felt | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 dwelt | punct |
| 17 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 21 dwelt | mark |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 Bodo | det |
| 19 | Graf | Graf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Bodo | compound |
| 20 | Bodo | Bodo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 dwelt | nsubj |
| 21 | dwelt | dwell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 felt | conj |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 it | case |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 dwelt | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 felt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | past | the occupants of the Haarburg | occupants = occupant | the grey giant tower | century | happy property | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent themselves=Theme in tower=Location | |
| 2 | dwell | past | a Graf Bodo | tower | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in it=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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