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Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 8, sentence 36

In the midst of the bright landscape opposite Schloss Ballenstedt rise the two huge boulders called the Gegensteine, which mark the eastern termination of the Devil's Wall.

Who acts: you, two huge boulders · What happens: rise, call, mark · To what, where: two huge boulders, midst, eastern termination · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (you, two huge boulders), 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

casedetoblcasedetamodcompoundcompoundnmodapposdetnummodamodobjacldetxcomppunctnsubjconjdetamodobjcasedetnmod:posscasenmodpunctrootInADPtheDETmidstNOUNofADPtheDETbrightADJlandscapeNOUNoppositeNOUNSchlossNOUNBallenstedtPROPNriseVERBtheDETtwoNUMhugeADJbouldersNOUNcalledVERBtheDETGegensteinePROPN,PUNCTwhichPRONmarkVERBtheDETeasternADJterminationNOUNofADPtheDETDevilPROPN'sPARTWallPROPN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1IninADP_3 midstcase
2thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art3 midstdet
3midstmidstNOUNNumber=Sing11 riseobl
4ofofADP_9 Schlosscase
5thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art9 Schlossdet
6brightbrightADJDegree=Pos9 Schlossamod
7landscapelandscapeNOUNNumber=Sing8 oppositecompound
8oppositeoppositeNOUNNumber=Sing9 Schlosscompound
9SchlossschlossNOUNNumber=Sing3 midstnmod
10BallenstedtBallenstedtPROPNNumber=Sing9 Schlossappos
11riseriseVERBMood=Imp VerbForm=Finrootroot
12thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art15 bouldersdet
13twotwoNUMNumForm=Word NumType=Card15 bouldersnummod
14hugehugeADJDegree=Pos15 bouldersamod
15bouldersboulderNOUNNumber=Plur11 riseobj
16calledcallVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass15 bouldersacl
17thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art18 Gegensteinedet
18GegensteineGegensteinePROPNNumber=Sing16 calledxcomp
19,,PUNCT_21 markpunct
20whichwhichPRONPronType=Rel21 marknsubj
21markmarkVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin15 bouldersconj
22thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art24 terminationdet
23easterneasternADJDegree=Pos24 terminationamod
24terminationterminationNOUNNumber=Sing21 markobj
25ofofADP_29 Wallcase
26thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art27 Devildet
27DevilDevilPROPNNumber=Sing29 Wallnmod:poss
28's'sPART_27 Devilcase
29WallWallPROPNNumber=Sing24 terminationnmod
30..PUNCT_11 risepunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1riseimperativeyou not said herethe two huge bouldersthe midst of the bright opposite Schlossvn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location boulder=Theme
2callparticiplethe two huge boulders not said herethe Gegensteine xcompvn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3markpresentthe two huge bouldersthe eastern termination of the Devil's Wallvn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent termination=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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