Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 8, sentence 95
A legend is told in Ellrich of an Earl von Klettenberg--not the devout founder of the Huy Wald Abbey, whose forsaken wife built Kloster Walkenried.
Who acts: forsaken wife · What happens: tell, forsake, build · To what, where: legend, Ellrich, Kloster · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (forsaken wife), 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 legend | det |
| 2 | legend | legend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 told | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 told | aux:pass |
| 4 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 Ellrich | case |
| 6 | Ellrich | Ellrich | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 told | iobj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 Klettenberg | case |
| 8 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 Klettenberg | det |
| 9 | Earl | Earl | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Klettenberg | compound |
| 10 | von | von | PROPN | _ | 9 Earl | flat |
| 11 | Klettenberg | Klettenberg | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Ellrich | nmod |
| 12 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 16 founder | punct |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 founder | advmod |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 founder | det |
| 15 | devout | devout | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 founder | amod |
| 16 | founder | founder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 told | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 Wald | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Wald | det |
| 19 | Huy | Huy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Wald | compound |
| 20 | Wald | Wald | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 founder | nmod |
| 21 | Abbey | Abbey | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Wald | flat |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 built | punct |
| 23 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 25 wife | nmod:poss |
| 24 | forsaken | forsake | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 wife | amod |
| 25 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 built | nsubj |
| 26 | built | build | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 Wald | acl:relcl |
| 27 | Kloster | Kloster | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 built | obj |
| 28 | Walkenried | Walkenried | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 Kloster | flat |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | present · passive | a legend | Ellrich of a Earl Klettenberg | the devout founder of the Huy Wald obl | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient ellrich=Topic | |||
| 2 | forsake | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | build | past | forsaken wife | Kloster | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kloster=Product |
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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