Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 9, sentence 78
The songs of the birds rang out of the thickets, and soft chimes rose from the villages summoning to worship and praise---a mild, blissful peace hovered over the entire scene.
Who acts: songs, soft chimes, villages, mild blissful peace, birds · What happens: ring out, rise, summon, worship, praise, hover · To what, where: thickets, villages, entire scene
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 (songs, soft chimes, villages, mild blissful peace), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 songs | det |
| 2 | songs | song | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 rang | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 birds | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 birds | det |
| 5 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 songs | nmod |
| 6 | rang | ring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | out | out | ADP | _ | 10 thickets | case |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 thickets | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 thickets | det |
| 10 | thickets | thicket | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 rang | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 rose | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 rose | cc |
| 13 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 chimes | amod |
| 14 | chimes | chime | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 rose | nsubj |
| 15 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 rang | conj |
| 16 | from | from | ADP | _ | 18 villages | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 villages | det |
| 18 | villages | village | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 rose | obl |
| 19 | summoning | summon | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 18 villages | acl |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 worship | mark |
| 21 | worship | worship | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 summoning | xcomp |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 praise | cc |
| 23 | praise | praise | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 worship | conj |
| 24 | --- | --- | PUNCT | _ | 30 hovered | punct |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 peace | det |
| 26 | mild | mild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 peace | amod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 mild | punct |
| 28 | blissful | blissful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 peace | amod |
| 29 | peace | peace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 hovered | nsubj |
| 30 | hovered | hover | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 rang | conj |
| 31 | over | over | ADP | _ | 34 scene | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 scene | det |
| 33 | entire | entire | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 scene | amod |
| 34 | scene | scene | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 hovered | obl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 rang | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ring out | past | the songs of the birds | the thickets | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location thicket=Theme | ||||
| 2 | rise | past | soft chimes | the villages | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from village=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | summon | gerund | the villages not said here | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | worship | to-infinitive | the villages not said here | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | praise | infinitive | the villages not said here | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | hover | past | a mild blissful peace | the entire scene | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over scene=Location | ||||
| 7 | sing | the birds | nom song «communication intransitive»: of=agent |
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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