Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 4, sentence 17
I can attend to my religion much better in my own room, or in the woods, where the trees form nobler Gothic arches than any cathedral, from Köln and Halberstadt down.
Who acts: I, trees · What happens: attend, form · To what, where: nobler Gothic arches, woods
This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, trees), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 attend | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 attend | aux |
| 3 | attend | attend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 religion | case |
| 5 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 religion | nmod:poss |
| 6 | religion | religion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 attend | obl |
| 7 | much | much | ADV | _ | 8 better | advmod |
| 8 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 attend | parataxis |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 room | case |
| 10 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 room | nmod:poss |
| 11 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 room | amod |
| 12 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 better | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 form | punct |
| 14 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 22 form | cc |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 woods | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 woods | det |
| 17 | woods | wood | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 form | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 form | punct |
| 19 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 22 form | advmod |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 trees | det |
| 21 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 form | nsubj |
| 22 | form | form | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 attend | conj |
| 23 | nobler | noble | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 25 arches | amod |
| 24 | Gothic | gothic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 arches | amod |
| 25 | arches | arch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 form | obj |
| 26 | than | than | ADP | _ | 28 cathedral | case |
| 27 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 28 cathedral | det |
| 28 | cathedral | cathedral | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 arches | nmod |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 Köln | punct |
| 30 | from | from | ADP | _ | 31 Köln | case |
| 31 | Köln | Köln | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 arches | nmod |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 Halberstadt | cc |
| 33 | Halberstadt | Halberstadt | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 Köln | conj |
| 34 | down | down | ADV | _ | 31 Köln | advmod |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 attend | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | attend | can | I | to my religion | vn caring-75.2-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent to religion=Theme | ||||
| 2 | form | present | the trees | nobler Gothic arches | the woods | than any cathedral; from Köln and Halberstadt | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP PP.material»: agent=Agent arch=Result from köln=Material |
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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