Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 6, sentence 76
At that time thousands of strangers did not, as now, visit the sublime rocky valley, to enjoy its wild and savage grandeur, and its trout and merlins, and the poor man, though naturally of a contented mind, often murmured at his poverty.
Who acts: thousands · What happens: not do, visit, enjoy, content, murmur · To what, where: sublime rocky valley, wild grandeur, contented mind, poverty
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 (thousands), 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 time | case |
| 2 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 time | det |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 did | obl |
| 4 | thousands | thousand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 did | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 strangers | case |
| 6 | strangers | stranger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 thousands | nmod |
| 7 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 did | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 visit | punct |
| 10 | as | as | ADP | _ | 11 now | case |
| 11 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 visit | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 visit | punct |
| 13 | visit | visit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 did | conj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 valley | det |
| 15 | sublime | sublime | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 valley | amod |
| 16 | rocky | rocky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 valley | amod |
| 17 | valley | valley | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 visit | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 enjoy | punct |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 enjoy | mark |
| 20 | enjoy | enjoy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 visit | conj |
| 21 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 grandeur | nmod:poss |
| 22 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 grandeur | amod |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 savage | cc |
| 24 | savage | savage | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 wild | conj |
| 25 | grandeur | grandeur | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 enjoy | obj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 trout | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 trout | cc |
| 28 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 trout | nmod:poss |
| 29 | trout | trout | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 did | parataxis |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 merlins | cc |
| 31 | merlins | merlin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 trout | conj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 man | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 man | cc |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 man | det |
| 35 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 man | amod |
| 36 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 trout | conj |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 mind | punct |
| 38 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 43 mind | mark |
| 39 | naturally | naturally | ADV | _ | 43 mind | advmod |
| 40 | of | of | ADP | _ | 43 mind | case |
| 41 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 43 mind | det |
| 42 | contented | content | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 43 mind | amod |
| 43 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 trout | conj |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 murmured | punct |
| 45 | often | often | ADV | _ | 46 murmured | advmod |
| 46 | murmured | murmur | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 43 mind | acl |
| 47 | at | at | ADP | _ | 49 poverty | case |
| 48 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 49 poverty | nmod:poss |
| 49 | poverty | poverty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 murmured | obl |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not do | past | thousands of strangers | time | valley's trout and merlins and the poor man and a contented mind parataxis | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | visit | infinitive | thousands of strangers not said here | the sublime rocky valley | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent valley=Co-Agent | ||||
| 3 | enjoy | to-infinitive | thousands of strangers not said here | valley's wild grandeur | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer grandeur=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | content | participle | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 5 | murmur speech: other | participle | a contented mind not said here | man's poverty | often property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at poverty=Location |
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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