Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 9, sentence 101
"Thou sangst just now a beautiful song, that was made for the troubled.
Who acts: Thou · What happens: sing, make · To what, where: beautiful song, that
This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Thou), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 sangst | punct |
| 2 | Thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 3 sangst | nsubj |
| 3 | sangst | sing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | just | just | ADV | _ | 5 now | advmod |
| 5 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 sangst | advmod |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 song | det |
| 7 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 song | amod |
| 8 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sangst | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 made | punct |
| 10 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 made | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 made | aux:pass |
| 12 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 sangst | conj |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 troubled | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 troubled | det |
| 15 | troubled | troubled | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 made | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sangst | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sing speech: express in a quote | past | Thou | a beautiful song | now | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location song=Theme | |||
| 2 | make in a quote | past · passive | that | for the troubled | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: subject=Product for troubled=Asset |
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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