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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

explpunctcasedetobladvmodcasepunctadvmodcasenmod:possobldetamodamodcompoundnsubj:passaux:passparataxispunctdetamodnsubj:passauxconjobjcasedetnmodmarkadvcldetobjpunctrootTherePRON,PUNCTonADPtheDETmountainNOUNwestADVofADPThalePROPN,PUNCTwhereADVinADPitsPRONbosomNOUNtheDETantediluvianADJgiantADJanimalNOUNskeletonsNOUNwereAUXfoundVERB,PUNCTanDEToldADJwarriorNOUNhadAUXreceivedVERBpermissionNOUNfromADPtheDETKaiserPROPNtoPARTclearVERBtheDETlandNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1TheretherePRONPronType=Dem8 Thaleexpl
2,,PUNCT_8 Thalepunct
3ononADP_5 mountaincase
4thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art5 mountaindet
5mountainmountainNOUNNumber=Sing8 Thaleobl
6westwestADV_8 Thaleadvmod
7ofofADP_8 Thalecase
8ThaleThalePROPNNumber=Singrootroot
9,,PUNCT_20 foundpunct
10wherewhereADVPronType=Rel20 foundadvmod
11ininADP_13 bosomcase
12itsitsPRONCase=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs13 bosomnmod:poss
13bosombosomNOUNNumber=Sing20 foundobl
14thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art18 skeletonsdet
15antediluvianantediluvianADJDegree=Pos18 skeletonsamod
16giantgiantADJDegree=Pos18 skeletonsamod
17animalanimalNOUNNumber=Sing18 skeletonscompound
18skeletonsskeletonNOUNNumber=Plur20 foundnsubj:pass
19werebeAUXMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin20 foundaux:pass
20foundfindVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass8 Thaleparataxis
21,,PUNCT_26 receivedpunct
22anaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art24 warriordet
23oldoldADJDegree=Pos24 warrioramod
24warriorwarriorNOUNNumber=Sing26 receivednsubj:pass
25hadhaveAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin26 receivedaux
26receivedreceiveVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass20 foundconj
27permissionpermissionNOUNNumber=Sing26 receivedobj
28fromfromADP_30 Kaisercase
29thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art30 Kaiserdet
30KaiserKaiserPROPNNumber=Sing27 permissionnmod
31totoPART_32 clearmark
32clearclearVERBVerbForm=Inf26 receivedadvcl
33thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art34 landdet
34landlandNOUNNumber=Sing32 clearobj
35..PUNCT_8 Thalepunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1findpast · passivethe antediluvian giant animal skeletonsmountain's bosomvn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic
2receivepast · perfect · passivea old warriorpermission objvn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP ADV»: subject=Theme permission=Location
3clearto-infinitivethe landvn clear-10.3-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent land=Source
5bosommountainnom 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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