Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 8, sentence 13
It is about a German mile, which is equal to four and seven-tenths of an English mile.
Who acts: distance, German mile · What happens: be
This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (distance, German mile), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 mile | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 mile | cop |
| 3 | about | about | ADP | _ | 6 mile | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 mile | det |
| 5 | German | German | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 mile | amod |
| 6 | mile | mile | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 equal | punct |
| 8 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 equal | nsubj |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 equal | cop |
| 10 | equal | equal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 mile | parataxis |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 four | case |
| 12 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 equal | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 tenths | cc |
| 14 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 tenths | nummod |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 seven | punct |
| 16 | tenths | tenth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 equal | conj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 mile | case |
| 18 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 mile | det |
| 19 | English | English | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 mile | amod |
| 20 | mile | mile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 tenths | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 mile | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | distance | about a German mile | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | present | a German mile | to four; seven tenths of a English mile conj; equal property | tree rules |
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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