Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 5, sentence 20

Broken walls of the grey, long-past centuries, on the wooded mountains, a dilapidated tower, moats overgrown with wild thorns, a few dark and gloomy vaults, and half-fallen windows and arches--those are the small remains of the most magnificent of the former castles of the Harz mountains, the ruins of the ancient seat of the Counts-palatine, the Lauenburg.

Who acts: those · What happens: wood, dilapidate, moat overgrown, fall, be, ruin · To what, where: small remains, Broken walls, ancient seat

This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (those), 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	Broken	broken	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 walls	amod
2	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	10 centuries	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 centuries	det
5	grey	grey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 centuries	amod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 grey	punct
7	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 past	amod
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 long	punct
9	past	past	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 centuries	amod
10	centuries	century	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 walls	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 mountains	punct
12	on	on	ADP	_	15 mountains	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 mountains	det
14	wooded	wood	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 mountains	amod
15	mountains	mountain	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 walls	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 tower	punct
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 tower	det
18	dilapidated	dilapidate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 tower	amod
19	tower	tower	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 walls	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 moats	punct
21	moats	moat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 walls	conj
22	overgrown	overgrown	ADP	_	21 moats	compound:prt
23	with	with	ADP	_	25 thorns	case
24	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 thorns	amod
25	thorns	thorn	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 moats	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 vaults	punct
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 vaults	det
28	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 vaults	amod
29	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 vaults	amod
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 gloomy	cc
31	gloomy	gloomy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 dark	conj
32	vaults	vault	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 walls	conj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 windows	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 windows	cc
35	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	37 fallen	compound
36	-	-	PUNCT	_	35 half	punct
37	fallen	fall	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	38 windows	amod
38	windows	window	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 walls	conj
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 arches	cc
40	arches	arch	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 walls	conj
41	--	--	PUNCT	_	46 remains	punct
42	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	46 remains	nsubj
43	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	46 remains	cop
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 remains	det
45	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 remains	amod
46	remains	remains	NOUN	Number=Ptan	2 walls	conj
47	of	of	ADP	_	50 magnificent	case
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 magnificent	det
49	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	50 magnificent	advmod
50	magnificent	magnificent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 remains	nmod
51	of	of	ADP	_	54 castles	case
52	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	54 castles	det
53	former	former	ADJ	Degree=Pos	54 castles	amod
54	castles	castle	NOUN	Number=Plur	50 magnificent	obl
55	of	of	ADP	_	58 mountains	case
56	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	58 mountains	det
57	Harz	Harz	PROPN	Number=Sing	58 mountains	compound
58	mountains	mountain	NOUN	Number=Plur	54 castles	nmod
59	,	,	PUNCT	_	61 ruins	punct
60	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	61 ruins	det
61	ruins	ruin	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 walls	conj
62	of	of	ADP	_	65 seat	case
63	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	65 seat	det
64	ancient	ancient	ADJ	Degree=Pos	65 seat	amod
65	seat	seat	NOUN	Number=Sing	61 ruins	nmod
66	of	of	ADP	_	70 palatine	case
67	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	68 Counts	det
68	Counts	Count	PROPN	Number=Plur	70 palatine	nsubj
69	-	-	PUNCT	_	68 Counts	punct
70	palatine	palatine	NOUN	Number=Sing	65 seat	nmod
71	,	,	PUNCT	_	73 Lauenburg	punct
72	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	73 Lauenburg	det
73	Lauenburg	Lauenburg	PROPN	Number=Sing	70 palatine	appos
74	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 walls	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	wood	participle				tree rules
2	dilapidate	participle				tree rules
3	moat overgrown	present			with wild thorns	tree rules
4	fall	participle			half compound	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	is a	present	those	the small remains	of the magnificent of the former castles of the Harz mountains	tree rules
7	ruin			the ancient seat of palatine the Counts		nom ruin «state 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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Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 5, sentence 20