Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 8, sentence 15
From the south side the height is connected by a narrow tongue of land with the vast forests that cover the high table-lands of the Harz.
Who acts: narrow tongue, vast forests · What happens: connect, cover · To what, where: height, south side, high table lands
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 (narrow tongue, vast forests), 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 | From | from | ADP | _ | 4 side | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 side | det |
| 3 | south | south | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 side | compound |
| 4 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 connected | obl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 height | det |
| 6 | height | height | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 connected | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 connected | aux:pass |
| 8 | connected | connect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 12 tongue | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 tongue | det |
| 11 | narrow | narrow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 tongue | amod |
| 12 | tongue | tongue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 connected | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 land | case |
| 14 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 tongue | nmod |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 forests | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 forests | det |
| 17 | vast | vast | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 forests | amod |
| 18 | forests | forest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 connected | obl |
| 19 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 cover | nsubj |
| 20 | cover | cover | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 forests | acl:relcl |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 lands | det |
| 22 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 lands | amod |
| 23 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 lands | compound |
| 24 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 23 table | punct |
| 25 | lands | land | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 cover | obj |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 Harz | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 Harz | det |
| 28 | Harz | Harz | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 lands | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 connected | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | connect | present · passive | a narrow tongue of land | the height | the south side | with the vast forests | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent subject=Patient with forest=Co-Patient | ||
| 2 | cover | present | the vast forests | the high table lands of the Harz | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme land=Destination |
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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