Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 6, sentence 73
From the windings of the Bode, a huge greenstone rock rises steep and rugged, partially overgrown with the _Planta genista_, or wild broom, and creeping plants, nearly its entire base being washed by the waves of the clear mountain stream.
Who acts: huge greenstone rock, waves · What happens: rise, overgrow, creep, wash, wave · To what, where: windings, plants, entire base, clear mountain stream
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 (huge greenstone rock, waves), 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 | From | from | ADP | _ | 3 windings | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 windings | det |
| 3 | windings | winding | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 rises | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 Bode | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Bode | det |
| 6 | Bode | Bode | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 windings | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 windings | punct |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 rock | det |
| 9 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 rock | amod |
| 10 | greenstone | greenstone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 rock | compound |
| 11 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 rises | nsubj |
| 12 | rises | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | steep | steep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 rises | xcomp |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 rugged | cc |
| 15 | rugged | rugged | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 steep | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 overgrown | punct |
| 17 | partially | partially | ADV | _ | 18 overgrown | advmod |
| 18 | overgrown | overgrow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 rises | advcl |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 genista | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 genista | det |
| 21 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 23 genista | punct |
| 22 | Planta | planta | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 genista | compound |
| 23 | genista | genista | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 overgrown | obl |
| 24 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 18 overgrown | punct |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 broom | punct |
| 26 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 28 broom | cc |
| 27 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 broom | amod |
| 28 | broom | broom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 rises | conj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 creeping | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 creeping | cc |
| 31 | creeping | creep | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 rises | advcl |
| 32 | plants | plant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 creeping | obj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 base | punct |
| 34 | nearly | nearly | ADV | _ | 37 base | advmod |
| 35 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 base | nmod:poss |
| 36 | entire | entire | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 base | amod |
| 37 | base | base | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 creeping | conj |
| 38 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 39 washed | aux:pass |
| 39 | washed | wash | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 37 base | acl |
| 40 | by | by | ADP | _ | 42 waves | case |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 waves | det |
| 42 | waves | wave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 washed | obl:agent |
| 43 | of | of | ADP | _ | 47 stream | case |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 47 stream | det |
| 45 | clear | clear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 47 stream | amod |
| 46 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 stream | compound |
| 47 | stream | stream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 waves | nmod |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 rises | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rise | present | a huge greenstone rock | the windings of the Bode | wild broom conj; steep property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from winding=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | overgrow | participle | a huge greenstone rock not said here | with the Planta genista; partially property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | creep | gerund | a huge greenstone rock not said here | plants | broom's entire base conj | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location plant=Theme | |||
| 4 | wash | gerund · passive | the waves of the clear mountain stream | broom's entire base not said here | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | wave | the clear mountain stream | nom wave «event 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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