Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 2, sentence 5
This wall the devil had built to prevent the spread of the new faith.
What happens: build, prevent, spread · To what, where: wall, spread, new faith
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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 wall | det |
| 2 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 built | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 devil | det |
| 4 | devil | Devil | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 built | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 built | aux |
| 6 | built | build | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 prevent | mark |
| 8 | prevent | prevent | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 built | advcl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 spread | det |
| 10 | spread | spread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 prevent | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 faith | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 faith | det |
| 13 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 faith | amod |
| 14 | faith | faith | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 spread | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 built | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | build | past · perfect · passive | this wall | the devil nsubj:pass | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | ||||
| 2 | prevent | to-infinitive | the spread of the new faith | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer spread=Theme | |||||
| 3 | spread | the new faith | nom spread «event transitive»: of=patient |
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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