Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 2, sentence 19
The vast plain north of the Harz mountains has been the scene of countless knightly feuds and battles.
Who acts: vast plain north · What happens: be · To what, where: scene
This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (vast plain north), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 north | det |
| 2 | vast | vast | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 north | amod |
| 3 | plain | plain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 north | amod |
| 4 | north | north | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 scene | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 mountains | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 mountains | det |
| 7 | Harz | Harz | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 mountains | compound |
| 8 | mountains | mountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 north | nmod |
| 9 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 scene | aux |
| 10 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 scene | cop |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 scene | det |
| 12 | scene | scene | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 feuds | case |
| 14 | countless | countless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 feuds | amod |
| 15 | knightly | knightly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 feuds | amod |
| 16 | feuds | feud | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 scene | nmod |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 battles | cc |
| 18 | battles | battle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 feuds | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 scene | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present · perfect | the vast plain north of the Harz mountains | the scene | of countless knightly feuds and battles | tree rules |
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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