Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 3, sentence 33
So Hatebolt rode till he came to a stone mountain, which was, as if by nature, formed for a stronghold.
Who acts: Hatebolt, stone mountain · What happens: ride, come, be, form · To what, where: stone mountain, nature
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 (Hatebolt, stone mountain), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 rode | advmod |
| 2 | Hatebolt | Hatebolt | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 rode | nsubj |
| 3 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 6 came | mark |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 came | nsubj |
| 6 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 rode | ccomp |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 mountain | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 mountain | det |
| 9 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 mountain | compound |
| 10 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 came | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 nature | punct |
| 12 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 nature | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 nature | cop |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 nature | punct |
| 15 | as | as | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 18 nature | case |
| 16 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 15 as | fixed |
| 17 | by | by | ADP | _ | 18 nature | case |
| 18 | nature | nature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 mountain | appos |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 formed | punct |
| 20 | formed | form | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 nature | acl |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 stronghold | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 stronghold | det |
| 23 | stronghold | stronghold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 formed | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 rode | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ride | past | Hatebolt | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | come | past | Hatebolt | a stone mountain | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to mountain=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | is | past | a stone mountain | as nature | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | form | participle | nature not said here | for a stronghold | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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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