Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 8, sentence 106
Near Kloster Ilfeld, close by the _chaussée_, stands on a mountain a huge boulder, which has a small hole through the centre.
Who acts: huge boulder · What happens: stand, have · To what, where: huge boulder, Kloster, small hole, centre
This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (huge boulder), 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 | Near | near | ADP | _ | 2 Kloster | case |
| 2 | Kloster | Kloster | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 stands | obl |
| 3 | Ilfeld | Ilfeld | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Kloster | flat |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 close | punct |
| 5 | close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 Kloster | appos |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 chaussée | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 chaussée | det |
| 8 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 9 chaussée | punct |
| 9 | chaussée | chaussée | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 close | obl |
| 10 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 5 close | punct |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Kloster | punct |
| 12 | stands | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 mountain | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 mountain | det |
| 15 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 stands | obl |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 boulder | det |
| 17 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 boulder | amod |
| 18 | boulder | boulder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 stands | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 has | punct |
| 20 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 has | nsubj |
| 21 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 boulder | acl:relcl |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 hole | det |
| 23 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 hole | amod |
| 24 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 has | obj |
| 25 | through | through | ADP | _ | 27 centre | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 centre | det |
| 27 | centre | centre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 hole | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 stands | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | present | a huge boulder | Kloster | on a mountain | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent near kloster=Location | |||
| 2 | have | present | a huge boulder | a small hole | the centre | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hole=Patient |
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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