Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 7, sentence 5
We ascend this dale, and stand by the ruins of the old church Michaelstein, the mother of the later Kloster.
Who acts: We · What happens: ascend, stand, ruin · To what, where: dale, old church
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 (We), 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 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 ascend | nsubj |
| 2 | ascend | ascend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 dale | det |
| 4 | dale | dale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 ascend | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 stand | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 stand | cc |
| 7 | stand | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 ascend | conj |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 ruins | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 ruins | det |
| 10 | ruins | ruin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 stand | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 church | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 church | det |
| 13 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 church | amod |
| 14 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 ruins | nmod |
| 15 | Michaelstein | Michaelstein | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 church | appos |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 mother | punct |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 mother | det |
| 18 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 Michaelstein | appos |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 Kloster | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 Kloster | det |
| 21 | later | late | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 22 Kloster | amod |
| 22 | Kloster | Kloster | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 mother | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 ascend | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ascend | present | We | this dale | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme dale=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | stand | infinitive | We not said here | by the ruins of the old church | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by ruin=Location | ||||
| 3 | ruin | the old church | nom ruin «state transitive»: of=patient |
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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