Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 3, sentence 37
That is the fortress whose magnificent position still delights us, at whose ruins we gaze in amazement, in whose halls and chambers, almost entirely hewn in the rocks, we see the work of a far distant time, when comfort and luxury were unknown in this region.
Who acts: That, magnificent position, we, comfort, distant time · What happens: be, delight, gaze, see, work · To what, where: fortress, us, work, region
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 (That, magnificent position, we, comfort), 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 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 fortress | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 fortress | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 fortress | det |
| 4 | fortress | fortress | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 7 position | nmod:poss |
| 6 | magnificent | magnificent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 position | amod |
| 7 | position | position | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 delights | nsubj |
| 8 | still | still | ADV | _ | 9 delights | advmod |
| 9 | delights | delight | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 fortress | acl:relcl |
| 10 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 delights | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 gaze | punct |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 ruins | case |
| 13 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 14 ruins | nmod:poss |
| 14 | ruins | ruin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 gaze | obl |
| 15 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 gaze | nsubj |
| 16 | gaze | gaze | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 delights | conj |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 amazement | case |
| 18 | amazement | amazement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 gaze | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 halls | punct |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 halls | case |
| 21 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 22 halls | nmod:poss |
| 22 | halls | hall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 gaze | obl |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 chambers | cc |
| 24 | chambers | chamber | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 halls | conj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 hewn | punct |
| 26 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 28 hewn | advmod |
| 27 | entirely | entirely | ADV | _ | 28 hewn | advmod |
| 28 | hewn | hewn | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 halls | conj |
| 29 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 rocks | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 rocks | det |
| 31 | rocks | rock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 hewn | obl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 see | punct |
| 33 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 34 see | nsubj |
| 34 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 delights | conj |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 work | det |
| 36 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 see | obj |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 41 time | case |
| 38 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 41 time | det |
| 39 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 40 distant | advmod |
| 40 | distant | distant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 time | amod |
| 41 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 work | nmod |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 48 unknown | punct |
| 43 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 48 unknown | mark |
| 44 | comfort | comfort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 unknown | nsubj |
| 45 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 46 luxury | cc |
| 46 | luxury | luxury | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 comfort | conj |
| 47 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 48 unknown | cop |
| 48 | unknown | unknown | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 time | acl:relcl |
| 49 | in | in | ADP | _ | 51 region | case |
| 50 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 51 region | det |
| 51 | region | region | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 unknown | obl |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 fortress | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | That | the fortress | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | delight | present | magnificent position | us | still | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus we=Experiencer | |||
| 3 | gaze | present | we | in amazement; in halls and chambers; at ruins | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at ruin=Theme | ||||
| 4 | see | present | we | the work of a distant time | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer work=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | is | past | comfort and luxury | this region | unknown property | tree rules | |||
| 6 | work | a distant time | nom work «act intransitive»: of=agent |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74323/4/37/