Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 3, sentence 27
In the year 479, according to the chroniclers, the sharp contest between the tribes of Thuringia and the Sassen[1] took place for the possession of the Harz mountains.
Who acts: chroniclers · What happens: accord, take, possess · To what, where: place, Harz mountains
This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (chroniclers), 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 | _ | 3 year | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 year | det |
| 3 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 took | obl |
| 4 | 479 | 479 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 year | flat |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 chroniclers | punct |
| 6 | according | accord | VERB | ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 chroniclers | case |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 according | fixed |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 chroniclers | det |
| 9 | chroniclers | chronicler | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 took | nsubj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 contest | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 contest | det |
| 12 | sharp | sharp | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 contest | amod |
| 13 | contest | contest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 chroniclers | appos |
| 14 | between | between | ADP | _ | 16 tribes | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 tribes | det |
| 16 | tribes | tribe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 contest | nmod |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 Thuringia | case |
| 18 | Thuringia | Thuringia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 tribes | nmod |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 Sassen | cc |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Sassen | det |
| 21 | Sassen | Sassen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Thuringia | conj |
| 22 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 23 1 | punct |
| 23 | 1 | 1 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 21 Sassen | flat |
| 24 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 21 Sassen | punct |
| 25 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 26 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 took | obj |
| 27 | for | for | ADP | _ | 29 possession | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 possession | det |
| 29 | possession | possession | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 took | obl |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 mountains | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 mountains | det |
| 32 | Harz | Harz | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 mountains | compound |
| 33 | mountains | mountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 possession | nmod |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 25 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | accord | gerund | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | take | past | the chroniclers | place | year | for the possession of the Harz mountains | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent place=Theme for possession=Beneficiary | ||
| 3 | possess | the Harz mountains | nom possession «act 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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