Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 2, sentence 30
On the north side of the Harz mountains lies the town of Blankenburg, the origin of which is long prior to the time of Charlemagne, probably during that of the Sassens.
Who acts: town · What happens: lie, be · To what, where: north side
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 (town), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 4 side | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 side | det |
| 3 | north | north | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 side | amod |
| 4 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 lies | obl |
| 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 side | nmod |
| 9 | lies | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 town | det |
| 11 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 lies | nsubj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 Blankenburg | case |
| 13 | Blankenburg | Blankenburg | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 town | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 origin | punct |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 origin | det |
| 16 | origin | origin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 Blankenburg | appos |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 which | case |
| 18 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 long | obl |
| 19 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 long | cop |
| 20 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 origin | amod |
| 21 | prior | prior | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 24 time | case |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 prior | fixed |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 time | det |
| 24 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 lies | obl |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 Charlemagne | case |
| 26 | Charlemagne | Charlemagne | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 time | nmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 that | punct |
| 28 | probably | probably | ADV | _ | 30 that | advmod |
| 29 | during | during | ADP | _ | 30 that | case |
| 30 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 lies | obl |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 Sassens | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 Sassens | det |
| 33 | Sassens | Sassens | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 that | nmod |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 lies | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie | present | the town of Blankenburg | the north side of the Harz mountains | during that of the Sassens; time | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on side=Location | |||
| 2 | is | present | of the origin; long property | 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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