Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 7, sentence 9
One can now scarcely trace the site of the walls; fruit-trees run wild, and lilacs mark the spot where once the Kloster garden lay, and besides, no trace of a human habitation where once good and holy men dwelt in the mountain solitude.
Who acts: One, fruit trees, lilacs, Kloster garden, good men · What happens: trace, run, mark, lie, dwell · To what, where: site, spot, mountain solitude
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 (One, fruit trees, lilacs, Kloster garden), 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 | One | one | PRON | Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 trace | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 trace | aux |
| 3 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 trace | advmod |
| 4 | scarcely | scarcely | ADV | _ | 5 trace | advmod |
| 5 | trace | trace | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 site | det |
| 7 | site | site | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 trace | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 walls | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 walls | det |
| 10 | walls | wall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 site | nmod |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 run | punct |
| 12 | fruit | fruit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 trees | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 fruit | punct |
| 14 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 run | nsubj |
| 15 | run | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 trace | conj |
| 16 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 run | xcomp |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 mark | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 mark | cc |
| 19 | lilacs | lilac | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 mark | nsubj |
| 20 | mark | mark | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 run | conj |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 spot | det |
| 22 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 mark | obj |
| 23 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 28 lay | advmod |
| 24 | once | once | SCONJ | _ | 28 lay | mark |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 garden | det |
| 26 | Kloster | Kloster | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 garden | compound |
| 27 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 lay | nsubj |
| 28 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 spot | acl:relcl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 besides | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 besides | cc |
| 31 | besides | besides | INTJ | _ | 15 run | discourse |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 trace | punct |
| 33 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 34 trace | det |
| 34 | trace | trace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 besides | appos |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 habitation | case |
| 36 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 38 habitation | det |
| 37 | human | human | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 habitation | amod |
| 38 | habitation | habitation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 trace | nmod |
| 39 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 45 dwelt | advmod |
| 40 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 41 good | advmod |
| 41 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 men | amod |
| 42 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 holy | cc |
| 43 | holy | holy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 good | conj |
| 44 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 45 dwelt | nsubj |
| 45 | dwelt | dwell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 habitation | acl:relcl |
| 46 | in | in | ADP | _ | 49 solitude | case |
| 47 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 49 solitude | det |
| 48 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 solitude | compound |
| 49 | solitude | solitude | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 dwelt | obl |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 trace | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | trace | can | One | the site of the walls | now | scarcely property | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent site=Theme | ||
| 2 | run | present | fruit trees | wild property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | mark | present | lilacs | the spot | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent spot=Destination | ||||
| 4 | lie | past | the Kloster garden | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | dwell | past | good men | the mountain solitude | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in solitude=Location |
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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