Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 7, sentence 7
This cave served centuries ago as the dwelling-place of a hermit named Volkmar, and still bears his name.
Who acts: cave · What happens: serve, name · To what, where: cave, hermit
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 (cave), 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 cave | det |
| 2 | cave | cave | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | served | serve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 cave | acl |
| 4 | centuries | century | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 ago | obl:unmarked |
| 5 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 3 served | advmod |
| 6 | as | as | ADP | _ | 10 place | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 place | det |
| 8 | dwelling | dwelling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 place | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 dwelling | punct |
| 10 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 served | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 hermit | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 hermit | det |
| 13 | hermit | hermit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 place | nmod |
| 14 | named | name | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 hermit | acl |
| 15 | Volkmar | Volkmar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 named | xcomp |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 bears | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 bears | cc |
| 18 | still | still | ADV | _ | 19 bears | advmod |
| 19 | bears | bear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 cave | conj |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 name | nmod:poss |
| 21 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 bears | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 cave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | serve | participle | this cave and bears cave's name not said here | as the dwelling place of a hermit; ago property | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent as place=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | name | participle | a hermit not said here | Volkmar xcomp | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | name | cave | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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