Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 8, sentence 16
Seldom is the spot trodden by the foot of man, except by some benighted traveller, some inquisitive student of history, and the passionate lover of wood and mountain solitude.
What happens: be, tread, benight · To what, where: spot
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: 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 | Seldom | seldom | ADV | _ | 4 spot | advmod |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 spot | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 spot | det |
| 4 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | trodden | tread | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 spot | acl |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 foot | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 foot | det |
| 8 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 trodden | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 man | case |
| 10 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 foot | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 traveller | punct |
| 12 | except | except | ADP | _ | 16 traveller | case |
| 13 | by | by | ADP | _ | 16 traveller | case |
| 14 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 16 traveller | det |
| 15 | benighted | benight | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 traveller | amod |
| 16 | traveller | traveller | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 trodden | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 student | punct |
| 18 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 20 student | det |
| 19 | inquisitive | inquisitive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 student | amod |
| 20 | student | student | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 traveller | conj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 history | case |
| 22 | history | history | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 student | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 lover | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 lover | cc |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 lover | det |
| 26 | passionate | passionate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 lover | amod |
| 27 | lover | lover | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 spot | conj |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 wood | case |
| 29 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 lover | nmod |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 solitude | cc |
| 31 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 solitude | compound |
| 32 | solitude | solitude | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 wood | conj |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 spot | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the spot and the passionate lover of wood and mountain solitude | the passionate lover of wood and mountain solitude conj; seldom property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | tread | participle | the spot and the passionate lover of wood and mountain solitude not said here | by the foot of man; except some benighted traveller and some inquisitive student of history | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by foot=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | benight | participle | 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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