Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 7, sentence 87
A mass of scoria, the greater part of which has been employed on the _chaussée_, once marked the spot.
Who acts: mass · What happens: employ, mark · To what, where: chaussée, spot
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 (mass), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 mass | det |
| 2 | mass | mass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 marked | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 scoria | case |
| 4 | scoria | scoria | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 mass | nmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 part | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 part | det |
| 7 | greater | great | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 8 part | amod |
| 8 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 mass | appos |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 which | case |
| 10 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 employed | obl |
| 11 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 employed | aux |
| 12 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 13 employed | aux:pass |
| 13 | employed | employ | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 part | acl:relcl |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 chaussée | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 chaussée | det |
| 16 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 17 chaussée | punct |
| 17 | chaussée | chaussée | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 employed | obl |
| 18 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 13 employed | punct |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 mass | punct |
| 20 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 21 marked | advmod |
| 21 | marked | mark | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 spot | det |
| 23 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 marked | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 marked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | employ | present · perfect · passive | the chaussée | of the greater part | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP» | ||||
| 2 | mark | past | a mass of scoria | the spot | once property | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent spot=Destination |
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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