Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 7, sentence 86
Many centuries ago there lay in the valley of the little river Sieber, where now is the Long Meadow, copper-works.
Who acts: Many centuries · What happens: lie, be · To what, where: valley, Long Meadow
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 (Many centuries), 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 | Many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 centuries | amod |
| 2 | centuries | century | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 lay | nsubj |
| 3 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 5 lay | advmod |
| 4 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 lay | advmod |
| 5 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 valley | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 valley | det |
| 8 | valley | valley | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 lay | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 Sieber | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 river | det |
| 11 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 river | amod |
| 12 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 Sieber | compound |
| 13 | Sieber | Sieber | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 valley | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 Meadow | punct |
| 15 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 20 Meadow | advmod |
| 16 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 20 Meadow | advmod |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 Meadow | cop |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Meadow | det |
| 19 | Long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 Meadow | amod |
| 20 | Meadow | meadow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 Sieber | appos |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 works | punct |
| 22 | copper | copper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 works | compound |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 copper | punct |
| 24 | works | work | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 Meadow | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 lay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie | past | Many centuries | the valley of river Sieber; there | ago property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in valley=Location | |||
| 2 | is a | present | the Long Meadow and copper works | now | copper works conj | tree rules |
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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