Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 7, sentence 51
Not even a ghostly monk haunts the ruins, nor wanders by moonlight in the venerable cloisters.
Who acts: ghostly monk · What happens: not haunt · To what, where: ruins
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 (ghostly monk), 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 | Not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 haunts | advmod |
| 2 | even | even | ADV | _ | 5 monk | advmod |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 monk | det |
| 4 | ghostly | ghostly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 monk | amod |
| 5 | monk | monk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 haunts | nsubj |
| 6 | haunts | haunt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 ruins | det |
| 8 | ruins | ruin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 haunts | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 wanders | punct |
| 10 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 11 wanders | cc |
| 11 | wanders | wander | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 haunts | obl |
| 12 | by | by | ADP | _ | 13 moonlight | case |
| 13 | moonlight | moonlight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 haunts | obl |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 cloisters | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 cloisters | det |
| 16 | venerable | venerable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 cloisters | amod |
| 17 | cloisters | cloister | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 moonlight | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 haunts | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not haunt | present | a ghostly monk | the ruins | by moonlight in the venerable cloisters; wanders obl | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus ruin=Experiencer |
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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