Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 6, sentence 75
At the foot of this massive rock, on the opposite bank of the Bode, stood, nearly two hundred years ago, a small cottage, in which dwelt a poor but good fisherman, who earned but a scanty subsistence from the fruits of his toil.
Who acts: poor fisherman, Bode · What happens: stand, dwell, earn, toil · To what, where: small cottage, foot, poor fisherman, fruits
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 (poor fisherman, Bode), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 foot | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 foot | det |
| 3 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 stood | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 rock | case |
| 5 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 rock | det |
| 6 | massive | massive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 rock | amod |
| 7 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 foot | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 bank | punct |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 bank | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 bank | det |
| 11 | opposite | opposite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 bank | amod |
| 12 | bank | bank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 foot | conj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 Bode | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Bode | det |
| 15 | Bode | Bode | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 bank | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 foot | punct |
| 17 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 years | punct |
| 19 | nearly | nearly | ADV | _ | 21 hundred | advmod |
| 20 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 21 hundred | compound |
| 21 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 22 years | nummod |
| 22 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 stood | obl:unmarked |
| 23 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 22 years | advmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 cottage | punct |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 cottage | det |
| 26 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 cottage | amod |
| 27 | cottage | cottage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 stood | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 dwelt | punct |
| 29 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 which | case |
| 30 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 31 dwelt | nsubj |
| 31 | dwelt | dwell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 stood | parataxis |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 36 fisherman | det |
| 33 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 fisherman | amod |
| 34 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 35 good | cc |
| 35 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 poor | conj |
| 36 | fisherman | fisherman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 dwelt | obj |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 earned | punct |
| 38 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 39 earned | nsubj |
| 39 | earned | earn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 fisherman | acl:relcl |
| 40 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 43 subsistence | cc |
| 41 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 43 subsistence | det |
| 42 | scanty | scanty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 subsistence | compound |
| 43 | subsistence | subsistence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 fisherman | conj |
| 44 | from | from | ADP | _ | 46 fruits | case |
| 45 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 fruits | det |
| 46 | fruits | fruit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 dwelt | obl |
| 47 | of | of | ADP | _ | 49 toil | case |
| 48 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 49 toil | nmod:poss |
| 49 | toil | toil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 fruits | nmod |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | a small cottage | the foot of this massive rock and the opposite bank of the Bode | year | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at foot=Location | |||
| 2 | dwell | past | a poor fisherman but a scanty subsistence | the fruits of Bode's toil | which nsubj | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme fisherman=Location | |||
| 3 | earn | past | a poor fisherman but a scanty subsistence | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | toil | Bode | nom toil «act intransitive»: 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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