Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 3, sentence 31
Perhaps the Hun Stones still standing between Heimburg and Benzingerode have reference to this fiery collision, and the ancient burial-places discovered in the vicinity were the graves of those fallen in this contest.
Who acts: Hun Stones, ancient burial places · What happens: stand, have, discover, be, fall · To what, where: Heimburg, reference, ancient burial places, vicinity, graves, contest
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 (Hun Stones, ancient burial places), 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 | Perhaps | perhaps | ADV | _ | 11 have | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Stones | det |
| 3 | Hun | Hun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Stones | compound |
| 4 | Stones | Stone | PROPN | Number=Plur | 11 have | nsubj |
| 5 | still | still | ADV | _ | 6 standing | advmod |
| 6 | standing | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 Stones | acl |
| 7 | between | between | ADP | _ | 8 Heimburg | case |
| 8 | Heimburg | Heimburg | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 standing | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 Benzingerode | cc |
| 10 | Benzingerode | Benzingerode | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Heimburg | conj |
| 11 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | reference | reference | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 have | obj |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 collision | case |
| 14 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 collision | det |
| 15 | fiery | fiery | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 collision | amod |
| 16 | collision | collision | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 have | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 graves | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 graves | cc |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 places | det |
| 20 | ancient | ancient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 places | amod |
| 21 | burial | burial | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 places | compound |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 burial | punct |
| 23 | places | place | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 graves | nsubj |
| 24 | discovered | discover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 places | acl |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 vicinity | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 vicinity | det |
| 27 | vicinity | vicinity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 discovered | obl |
| 28 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 graves | cop |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 graves | det |
| 30 | graves | grave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 have | obl |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 those | case |
| 32 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 30 graves | nmod |
| 33 | fallen | fall | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 32 those | acl |
| 34 | in | in | ADP | _ | 36 contest | case |
| 35 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 36 contest | det |
| 36 | contest | contest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 fallen | obl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | gerund | the Hun Stones not said here | Heimburg and Benzingerode | still | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent between heimburg=Location | |||
| 2 | have | present | the Hun Stones | reference | to this fiery collision; perhaps property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reference=Patient | |||
| 3 | discover | participle | the ancient burial places not said here | the vicinity | vn discover-84-1 «NP V PP.topic S_ING»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | is a | past | the ancient burial places | the graves | of those | tree rules | |||
| 5 | fall | participle | this contest | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in contest=Location |
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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