Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 6, sentence 78

These reflections were all the more bitter since there was a tradition in the village that he himself was a descendant of the ancient Ritter who once ruled in the Treseburg.

Who acts: reflections, tradition, ancient Ritter · What happens: be, rule · To what, where: descendant, Treseburg

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 (reflections, tradition, ancient Ritter), 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	These	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	2 reflections	det
2	reflections	reflection	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 bitter	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 bitter	cop
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 bitter	det:predet
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 bitter	det
6	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	7 bitter	advmod
7	bitter	bitter	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	since	since	SCONJ	_	10 was	mark
9	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	10 was	expl
10	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 bitter	advcl
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 tradition	det
12	tradition	tradition	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 was	nsubj
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 village	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 village	det
15	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 tradition	nmod
16	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 descendant	mark
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 descendant	nsubj
18	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes	17 he	nmod:unmarked
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 descendant	cop
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 descendant	det
21	descendant	descendant	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 village	acl:relcl
22	of	of	ADP	_	25 Ritter	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 Ritter	det
24	ancient	ancient	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 Ritter	amod
25	Ritter	ritter	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 descendant	nmod
26	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 ruled	nsubj
27	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	28 ruled	advmod
28	ruled	rule	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 Ritter	acl:relcl
29	in	in	ADP	_	31 Treseburg	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 Treseburg	det
31	Treseburg	Treseburg	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 ruled	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 bitter	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	this reflections			bitter property	tree rules
2	be	past	a tradition in the village		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is a	past	tradition	a descendant		of the ancient Ritter	tree rules
4	rule	past	the ancient Ritter		the Treseburg	once property	vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=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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🌲 Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 6, sentence 78

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 6, sentence 78