Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 2, sentence 27
In the old Kloster of Wenthusen in Dorf Thale--pronounced Talé--is still preserved a mysterious Wonderstone, which is said to protect the estate and family from misfortune.
What happens: pronounce, preserve, say, protect · To what, where: old Kloster, Talé, mysterious Wonderstone, estate · Speech: someone speaks here
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: 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 Kloster | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Kloster | det |
| 3 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Kloster | amod |
| 4 | Kloster | Kloster | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 pronounced | obl |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 Wenthusen | case |
| 6 | Wenthusen | Wenthusen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Kloster | nmod |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 Dorf | case |
| 8 | Dorf | Dorf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Wenthusen | nmod |
| 9 | Thale | Thale | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Dorf | flat |
| 10 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 4 Kloster | punct |
| 11 | pronounced | pronounce | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | Talé | Talé | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 preserved | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 12 Talé | punct |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 preserved | aux:pass |
| 15 | still | still | ADV | _ | 16 preserved | advmod |
| 16 | preserved | preserve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 pronounced | parataxis |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 Wonderstone | det |
| 18 | mysterious | mysterious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 Wonderstone | amod |
| 19 | Wonderstone | Wonderstone | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 preserved | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 said | punct |
| 21 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 said | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 said | aux:pass |
| 23 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 Wonderstone | parataxis |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 protect | mark |
| 25 | protect | protect | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 said | advcl |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 estate | det |
| 27 | estate | estate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 protect | obj |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 family | cc |
| 29 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 estate | conj |
| 30 | from | from | ADP | _ | 31 misfortune | case |
| 31 | misfortune | misfortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 protect | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 pronounced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pronounce | past | the old Kloster of Wenthusen in Dorf | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent in kloster=Manner | |||||
| 2 | preserve | present · passive | Talé | still | a mysterious Wonderstone obl | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Beneficiary | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert | present · passive | a mysterious Wonderstone | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic | |||||
| 4 | protect | to-infinitive | the estate and family | from misfortune | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent estate=Beneficiary from misfortune=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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