Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 7, sentence 10
This spot--this hermitage--was once a renowned shrine, and thousands flocked here to seek consolation, for in the cave was a grave where were said to rest the bones of the Virgin Mary.
Who acts: spot, thousands · What happens: be, flock, seek, say, rest · To what, where: renowned shrine, consolation, cave, bones · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (spot, 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 spot | det |
| 2 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 shrine | nsubj |
| 3 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 5 hermitage | punct |
| 4 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 hermitage | det |
| 5 | hermitage | hermitage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 spot | conj |
| 6 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 2 spot | punct |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 shrine | cop |
| 8 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 11 shrine | advmod |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 shrine | det |
| 10 | renowned | renowned | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 shrine | amod |
| 11 | shrine | shrine | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 flocked | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 flocked | cc |
| 14 | thousands | thousand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 flocked | nsubj |
| 15 | flocked | flock | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 shrine | acl:relcl |
| 16 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 flocked | advmod |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 seek | mark |
| 18 | seek | seek | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 flocked | xcomp |
| 19 | consolation | consolation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 seek | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 grave | punct |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 27 grave | case |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 cave | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 cave | det |
| 24 | cave | cave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 grave | obl |
| 25 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 grave | cop |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 grave | det |
| 27 | grave | grave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 seek | conj |
| 28 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 30 said | advmod |
| 29 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 said | aux:pass |
| 30 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 27 grave | acl:relcl |
| 31 | to | to | PART | _ | 32 rest | mark |
| 32 | rest | rest | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 said | xcomp |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 bones | det |
| 34 | bones | bone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 rest | obj |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 Mary | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 Mary | det |
| 37 | Virgin | Virgin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 38 Mary | compound |
| 38 | Mary | Mary | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 bones | nmod |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 shrine | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | this spot and this hermitage | a renowned shrine | once property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | flock | past | thousands | a renowned shrine not said here | here | tree rules | |||
| 3 | seek | to-infinitive | thousands not said here | consolation | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent consolation=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is | past | thousands not said here | the cave | for a grave | tree rules | |||
| 5 | say speech: assert | past · passive | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: clause=Topic | ||||||
| 6 | rest | to-infinitive | the bones of the Virgin Mary | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location bone=Theme |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74323/8/10/