Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 8, sentence 27
These guests of the mountain are the old Kaisers who once held their Court in Goslar.
Who acts: guests, old Kaisers · What happens: be, hold · To what, where: old Kaisers, Court, Goslar
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 (guests, old Kaisers), 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 | These | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 2 guests | det |
| 2 | guests | guest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 Kaisers | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 mountain | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 mountain | det |
| 5 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 guests | nmod |
| 6 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 Kaisers | cop |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Kaisers | det |
| 8 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 Kaisers | amod |
| 9 | Kaisers | kaiser | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 10 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 held | nsubj |
| 11 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 12 held | advmod |
| 12 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 Kaisers | acl:relcl |
| 13 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 Court | nmod:poss |
| 14 | Court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 held | obj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 Goslar | case |
| 16 | Goslar | Goslar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 held | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 Kaisers | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | this guests of the mountain | the old Kaisers | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | hold | past | the old Kaisers | guests's Court | Goslar | once property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent court=Theme in goslar=Location |
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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