Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 7, sentence 83
The Nikolai church still stands, shaded by old lindens, and at its west end the shepherds' two towers.
Who acts: Nikolai church · What happens: stand, shade
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 (Nikolai church), 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 | 3 church | det |
| 2 | Nikolai | Nikolai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 church | compound |
| 3 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stands | nsubj |
| 4 | still | still | ADV | _ | 5 stands | advmod |
| 5 | stands | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 shaded | punct |
| 7 | shaded | shade | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 stands | advcl |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 lindens | case |
| 9 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 lindens | amod |
| 10 | lindens | linden | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 shaded | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 towers | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 towers | cc |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 end | case |
| 14 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 end | nmod:poss |
| 15 | west | west | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 end | amod |
| 16 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 towers | obl |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 shepherds | det |
| 18 | shepherds | shepherd | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 towers | nmod:poss |
| 19 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 18 shepherds | case |
| 20 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 21 towers | nummod |
| 21 | towers | tower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 lindens | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 stands | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | present | the Nikolai church | still | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | shade | participle | the Nikolai church not said here | by old lindens and the shepherds's two towers at contrary's west end | vn defend-72.3 «NP V S_ING»: agent=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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