Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 6, sentence 138
On the borders of the wood stand the ruins of the ancient Kloster Michaelstein, which we pass, and go up the valley, the brook acting as our guide.
Who acts: you, we, brook · What happens: stand, pass, go up, act, ruin · To what, where: ruins, borders, ancient Kloster Michaelstein, valley
This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, we, brook), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 3 borders | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 borders | det |
| 3 | borders | border | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 stand | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 wood | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 wood | det |
| 6 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 stand | obl |
| 7 | stand | stand | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 ruins | det |
| 9 | ruins | ruin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 stand | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 Michaelstein | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Michaelstein | det |
| 12 | ancient | ancient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 Michaelstein | amod |
| 13 | Kloster | Kloster | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Michaelstein | compound |
| 14 | Michaelstein | Michaelstein | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 ruins | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 pass | punct |
| 16 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 pass | obj |
| 17 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 pass | nsubj |
| 18 | pass | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 Michaelstein | acl:relcl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 go | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 go | cc |
| 21 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 7 stand | conj |
| 22 | up | up | ADP | _ | 21 go | compound:prt |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 valley | det |
| 24 | valley | valley | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 go | obj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 brook | punct |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 brook | det |
| 27 | brook | brook | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 valley | appos |
| 28 | acting | act | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 27 brook | acl |
| 29 | as | as | ADP | _ | 31 guide | case |
| 30 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 guide | nmod:poss |
| 31 | guide | guide | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 acting | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 stand | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | imperative | you not said here | the ruins of the ancient Kloster Michaelstein | the borders | of the wood | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent ruin=Theme on border=Destination | ||
| 2 | pass | present | we | the ancient Kloster Michaelstein | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme which=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | go up | infinitive | you not said here | the valley | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient valley=Extent | ||||
| 4 | act | gerund | the brook not said here | as our guide | vn masquerade-29.6-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent as guide=Attribute | ||||
| 5 | ruin | the ancient Kloster Michaelstein | 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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