Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 8, sentence 45
Their King Hibich was ages old, with shaggy hair like a bear, a very wrinkled face, and a long ice-grey beard, which possessed magical power.
Who acts: King Hibich, long grey beard · What happens: be, possess · To what, where: magical power
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 (King Hibich, long grey beard), 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 | Their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 Hibich | nmod:poss |
| 2 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Hibich | compound |
| 3 | Hibich | Hibich | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 old | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 old | cop |
| 5 | ages | age | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 old | obl:unmarked |
| 6 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 hair | punct |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 hair | case |
| 9 | shaggy | shaggy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 hair | amod |
| 10 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 old | obl |
| 11 | like | like | ADP | _ | 13 bear | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 bear | det |
| 13 | bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 hair | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 face | punct |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 face | det |
| 16 | very | very | ADV | _ | 17 wrinkled | advmod |
| 17 | wrinkled | wrinkled | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 face | amod |
| 18 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 hair | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 beard | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 beard | cc |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 beard | det |
| 22 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 beard | amod |
| 23 | ice | ice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 grey | compound |
| 24 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 23 ice | punct |
| 25 | grey | grey | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 beard | amod |
| 26 | beard | beard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 old | parataxis |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 possessed | punct |
| 28 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 29 possessed | nsubj |
| 29 | possessed | possess | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 beard | parataxis |
| 30 | magical | magical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 power | amod |
| 31 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 possessed | obj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 old | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Hibichenstein's King Hibich | ages | with shaggy hair like a bear and a wrinkled face; a long grey beard parataxis; old property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | possess | past | a long grey beard | magical power | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot power=Theme |
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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