Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 7, sentence 3
There, on the mountain west of Thale, where in its bosom the antediluvian giant animal skeletons were found, an old warrior had received permission from the Kaiser to clear the land.
Who acts: mountain · What happens: find, receive, clear, bosom · To what, where: antediluvian giant animal skeletons, bosom, old warrior, land
This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mountain), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 8 Thale | expl |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 Thale | punct |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 mountain | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 mountain | det |
| 5 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 Thale | obl |
| 6 | west | west | ADV | _ | 8 Thale | advmod |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 Thale | case |
| 8 | Thale | Thale | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 found | punct |
| 10 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 20 found | advmod |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 bosom | case |
| 12 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 bosom | nmod:poss |
| 13 | bosom | bosom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 found | obl |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 skeletons | det |
| 15 | antediluvian | antediluvian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 skeletons | amod |
| 16 | giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 skeletons | amod |
| 17 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 skeletons | compound |
| 18 | skeletons | skeleton | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 found | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 found | aux:pass |
| 20 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 Thale | parataxis |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 received | punct |
| 22 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 warrior | det |
| 23 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 warrior | amod |
| 24 | warrior | warrior | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 received | nsubj:pass |
| 25 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 received | aux |
| 26 | received | receive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 found | conj |
| 27 | permission | permission | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 received | obj |
| 28 | from | from | ADP | _ | 30 Kaiser | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 Kaiser | det |
| 30 | Kaiser | Kaiser | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 permission | nmod |
| 31 | to | to | PART | _ | 32 clear | mark |
| 32 | clear | clear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 received | advcl |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 land | det |
| 34 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 clear | obj |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 Thale | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | past · passive | the antediluvian giant animal skeletons | mountain's bosom | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | ||||
| 2 | receive | past · perfect · passive | a old warrior | permission obj | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP ADV»: subject=Theme permission=Location | ||||
| 3 | clear | to-infinitive | the land | vn clear-10.3-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent land=Source | |||||
| 5 | bosom | mountain | nom bosom «state transitive»: poss=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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