Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 6, sentence 99
But the deep shadows of these woodlands, where the foot of man seldom wandered, this sacred stillness, undisturbed by the noise and bustle of human life, was notwithstanding peopled.
Who acts: foot, deep shadows, human life · What happens: wander, undisturb, notwithstand, people, shadow, bustle · To what, where: sacred stillness, woodlands
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 (foot, deep shadows, human life), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 32 notwithstanding | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 shadows | det |
| 3 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 shadows | amod |
| 4 | shadows | shadow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 notwithstanding | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 woodlands | case |
| 6 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 7 woodlands | det |
| 7 | woodlands | woodland | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 shadows | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 wandered | punct |
| 9 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 15 wandered | advmod |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 foot | det |
| 11 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 wandered | nsubj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 man | case |
| 13 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 foot | nmod |
| 14 | seldom | seldom | ADV | _ | 15 wandered | advmod |
| 15 | wandered | wander | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 woodlands | acl:relcl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 stillness | punct |
| 17 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 19 stillness | det |
| 18 | sacred | sacred | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 stillness | amod |
| 19 | stillness | stillness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 wandered | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 undisturbed | punct |
| 21 | undisturbed | undisturb | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 stillness | acl |
| 22 | by | by | ADP | _ | 24 noise | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 noise | det |
| 24 | noise | noise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 undisturbed | obl |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 bustle | cc |
| 26 | bustle | bustle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 noise | conj |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 life | case |
| 28 | human | human | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 life | amod |
| 29 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 bustle | nmod |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 shadows | punct |
| 31 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 notwithstanding | aux |
| 32 | notwithstanding | notwithstand | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 33 | peopled | people | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 32 notwithstanding | xcomp |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 32 notwithstanding | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wander | past | the foot of man | this sacred stillness | seldom property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | undisturb | participle | this sacred stillness not said here | by the noise and bustle of human life | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | notwithstand | past · progressive | the deep shadows of this woodlands | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | people | participle | the deep shadows of this woodlands not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | shadow | this woodlands | nom shadow «state transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 6 | bustle | human life | nom bustle «act intransitive»: of=agent |
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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