Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 6, sentence 60
The mountain has plenty of space; and there would be room to build spacious salons and chambers, and even a chapel, and a single moat around the whole; then we should be able to entertain our friends, as many as could come.
Who acts: mountain, we · What happens: have, be, build, entertain, come · To what, where: plenty, room, spacious salons, friends
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, we), 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 | 3 has | nsubj |
| 3 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | plenty | plenty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 has | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 space | case |
| 6 | space | space | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 plenty | nmod |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 room | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 be | cc |
| 9 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 11 be | expl |
| 10 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 be | aux |
| 11 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 room | cop |
| 12 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 has | parataxis |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 build | mark |
| 14 | build | build | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 room | acl |
| 15 | spacious | spacious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 salons | amod |
| 16 | salons | salon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 build | obj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 chambers | cc |
| 18 | chambers | chamber | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 salons | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 chapel | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 chapel | cc |
| 21 | even | even | ADV | _ | 23 chapel | advmod |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 chapel | det |
| 23 | chapel | chapel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 room | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 moat | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 moat | cc |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 moat | det |
| 27 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 moat | amod |
| 28 | moat | moat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 room | conj |
| 29 | around | around | ADP | _ | 31 whole | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 whole | det |
| 31 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 moat | nmod |
| 32 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 37 able | punct |
| 33 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 37 able | advmod |
| 34 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 37 able | nsubj |
| 35 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 37 able | aux |
| 36 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 37 able | cop |
| 37 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 has | parataxis |
| 38 | to | to | PART | _ | 39 entertain | mark |
| 39 | entertain | entertain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 37 able | xcomp |
| 40 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 41 friends | nmod:poss |
| 41 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 entertain | obj |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 many | punct |
| 43 | as | as | ADV | _ | 44 many | advmod |
| 44 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 able | conj |
| 45 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 47 come | mark |
| 46 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 47 come | aux |
| 47 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 44 many | advcl |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 has | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | the mountain | plenty of space | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plenty=Patient | ||||
| 2 | is a | infinitive | room and a chapel and a single moat around the whole | a chapel conj; a single moat around the whole conj | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | build | to-infinitive | the mountain not said here | spacious salons and chambers | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset salon=Product | ||||
| 4 | is | should | we | then | able property | tree rules | |||
| 5 | entertain | to-infinitive | we not said here | our friends | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus friend=Experiencer | ||||
| 6 | be | we not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 7 | come | could | we not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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