Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 7, sentence 13
The small forest church could boast the protection of the great of the earth.
Who acts: small forest church · What happens: boast · To what, where: protection
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 (small forest church), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 church | det |
| 2 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 church | amod |
| 3 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 church | compound |
| 4 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 boast | nsubj |
| 5 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 boast | aux |
| 6 | boast | boast | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 protection | det |
| 8 | protection | protection | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 boast | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 great | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 great | det |
| 11 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 protection | nmod |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 earth | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 earth | det |
| 14 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 great | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 boast | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | boast speech: other | could | the small forest church | the protection of the great of the earth | tree rules |
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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