Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 8, sentence 96

It was the morning of St. John's Day, and every Härzer knows that St. John's Eve and St. John's Day are rich in miracles in these mountains, and unfold many a mysterious flower.

Who acts: valley, Härzer, John · What happens: be, know, unfold · To what, where: morning, miracles, many · 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 (valley, Härzer, John), 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	4 morning	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 morning	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 morning	det
4	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	9 Day	case
6	St.	St.	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 John	nmod:desc
7	John	John	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Day	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 John	case
9	Day	Day	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 morning	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 knows	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 knows	cc
12	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	13 Härzer	det
13	Härzer	Härzer	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 knows	nsubj
14	knows	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 morning	parataxis
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	26 rich	mark
16	St.	St.	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 John	nmod:desc
17	John	John	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 rich	nsubj
18	's	's	PART	_	17 John	case
19	Eve	Eve	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 John	flat
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 Day	cc
21	St.	St.	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 John	nmod:desc
22	John	John	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 Day	nmod:poss
23	's	's	PART	_	22 John	case
24	Day	Day	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 John	conj
25	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 rich	cop
26	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 knows	ccomp
27	in	in	ADP	_	28 miracles	case
28	miracles	miracle	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 rich	obl
29	in	in	ADP	_	31 mountains	case
30	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	31 mountains	det
31	mountains	mountain	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 miracles	nmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 unfold	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 unfold	cc
34	unfold	unfold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 knows	conj
35	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 unfold	obj
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 flower	det
37	mysterious	mysterious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 flower	amod
38	flower	flower	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 unfold	obj
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 morning	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	valley	the morning		of John St.'s Day		tree rules
2	know	present	every Härzer					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	is	present	John St. and John St.'s Day		miracles in this mountains		rich property	tree rules
4	unfold	infinitive	every Härzer not said here	many			a mysterious flower obj	vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent many=Patient flower=Result

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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🌲 Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 8, sentence 96

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 8, sentence 96