Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 7, sentence 49
A priest of the cathedral of Halberstadt wrote her biography more than a thousand years ago.
Who acts: priest · What happens: write · To what, where: biography
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 (priest), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 priest | det |
| 2 | priest | priest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 wrote | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 cathedral | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 cathedral | det |
| 5 | cathedral | cathedral | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 priest | nmod |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 Halberstadt | case |
| 7 | Halberstadt | Halberstadt | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 cathedral | nmod |
| 8 | wrote | write | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 biography | nmod:poss |
| 10 | biography | biography | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 wrote | obj |
| 11 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV | 14 thousand | advmod |
| 12 | than | than | ADP | _ | 11 more | fixed |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 thousand | det |
| 14 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 years | nummod |
| 15 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 ago | obl:unmarked |
| 16 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 8 wrote | advmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 wrote | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | write | past | a priest of the cathedral of Halberstadt | priest's biography | ago property | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent biography=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.
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