Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 8, sentence 33
Below, at the north-west end of the town, the little river Innerste flows northward towards the Bielstein, and along its base.
Who acts: little river · What happens: flow · To what, where: west end
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 (little river), 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 | Below | below | ADV | _ | 17 flows | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Below | punct |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 end | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 end | det |
| 5 | north | north | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 west | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 north | punct |
| 7 | west | west | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 end | amod |
| 8 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 flows | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 town | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 town | det |
| 11 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 end | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 end | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 river | det |
| 14 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 river | amod |
| 15 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 flows | nsubj |
| 16 | Innerste | Innerste | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 river | appos |
| 17 | flows | flow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | northward | northward | ADV | _ | 17 flows | advmod |
| 19 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 21 Bielstein | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Bielstein | det |
| 21 | Bielstein | Bielstein | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 flows | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 base | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 base | cc |
| 24 | along | along | ADP | _ | 26 base | case |
| 25 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 base | nmod:poss |
| 26 | base | base | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 flows | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 flows | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | flow | present | the little river | at the west end of the town | towards the Bielstein; town's base conj; below, northward property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at end=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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