Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 6, sentence 74
On its summit, half hidden by moss and wild thorns, are grey ruins of a castle, of which no trace of its history is left to us save its name--the Treseburg.
Who acts: trace, base · What happens: hide, be, leave, save, name · To what, where: half, grey ruins, summit, trace, us, name
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 (trace, base), 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 summit | case |
| 2 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 summit | nmod:poss |
| 3 | summit | summit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 ruins | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 half | punct |
| 5 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 3 summit | conj |
| 6 | hidden | hide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 half | acl |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 moss | case |
| 8 | moss | moss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 hidden | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 thorns | cc |
| 10 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 thorns | amod |
| 11 | thorns | thorn | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 moss | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 summit | punct |
| 13 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 ruins | cop |
| 14 | grey | grey | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 ruins | amod |
| 15 | ruins | ruin | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 castle | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 castle | det |
| 18 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 ruins | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 left | punct |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 which | case |
| 21 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 28 left | obl |
| 22 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 23 trace | det |
| 23 | trace | trace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 left | nsubj:pass |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 history | case |
| 25 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 history | nmod:poss |
| 26 | history | history | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 trace | nmod |
| 27 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 left | aux:pass |
| 28 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 ruins | conj |
| 29 | to | to | ADP | _ | 30 us | case |
| 30 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 28 left | obl |
| 31 | save | save | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 left | xcomp |
| 32 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 name | nmod:poss |
| 33 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 save | obj |
| 34 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 36 Treseburg | punct |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 Treseburg | det |
| 36 | Treseburg | Treseburg | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 name | appos |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 ruins | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hide | participle | half not said here | by moss and wild thorns | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by moss=Location | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | grey ruins | base's summit and half | of a castle | tree rules | |||
| 3 | leave | present · passive | no trace of base's history | us | of grey ruins | tree rules | |||
| 4 | save | infinitive | no trace of base's history not said here | base's name | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=Theme | ||||
| 5 | name | base | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=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.
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