Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 6, sentence 98
A great lake covered a large portion of it; the ground around this lake was swampy and unfruitful, and dense forests shut out the sunlight.
Who acts: great lake, ground, dense forests · What happens: cover, be, shut out · To what, where: large portion, sunlight
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 (great lake, ground, dense forests), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 lake | det |
| 2 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 lake | amod |
| 3 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 covered | nsubj |
| 4 | covered | cover | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 portion | det |
| 6 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 portion | amod |
| 7 | portion | portion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 covered | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 it | case |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 portion | nmod |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 swampy | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 ground | det |
| 12 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 swampy | nsubj |
| 13 | around | around | ADP | _ | 15 lake | case |
| 14 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 lake | det |
| 15 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 ground | nmod |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 swampy | cop |
| 17 | swampy | swampy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 covered | conj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 unfruitful | cc |
| 19 | unfruitful | unfruitful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 swampy | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 shut | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 shut | cc |
| 22 | dense | dense | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 forests | amod |
| 23 | forests | forest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 shut | nsubj |
| 24 | shut | shut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 swampy | parataxis |
| 25 | out | out | ADP | _ | 24 shut | compound:prt |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 sunlight | det |
| 27 | sunlight | sunlight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 shut | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 covered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cover | past | a great lake | a large portion of portion | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme portion=Destination | ||||
| 2 | is | past | the ground around this lake | swampy property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | be | the ground around this lake not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | shut out | participle | dense forests | the sunlight | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent sunlight=Patient |
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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