Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 9, sentence 82
But as the sun rose higher, as all Nature bloomed and sent forth her frankincense of praise, and the streams murmured of peace, he grew more composed.
Who acts: sun, streams, wanderer · What happens: rise, bloom, send, murmur, grow, compose · To what, where: Nature, frankincense
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 (sun, streams, wanderer), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 28 grew | cc |
| 2 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 5 rose | mark |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 sun | det |
| 4 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 rose | nsubj |
| 5 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 grew | advcl |
| 6 | higher | high | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 5 rose | xcomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 rose | punct |
| 8 | as | as | ADP | _ | 10 Nature | case |
| 9 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 Nature | det |
| 10 | Nature | nature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 rose | obl |
| 11 | bloomed | bloom | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 Nature | acl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 sent | cc |
| 13 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 bloomed | conj |
| 14 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 13 sent | advmod |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 frankincense | nmod:poss |
| 16 | frankincense | frankincense | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 sent | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 praise | case |
| 18 | praise | praise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 frankincense | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 murmured | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 murmured | cc |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 streams | det |
| 22 | streams | stream | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 murmured | nsubj |
| 23 | murmured | murmur | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 rose | conj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 peace | case |
| 25 | peace | peace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 murmured | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 rose | punct |
| 27 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 grew | nsubj |
| 28 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 29 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 30 composed | advmod |
| 30 | composed | compose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 grew | advcl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 28 grew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rise | past | the sun | as all Nature; high property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | bloom | participle | all Nature not said here | vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | send | participle | sun's frankincense of praise | forth property | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent frankincense=Theme | ||||
| 4 | murmur speech: other | past | the streams | of peace | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | grow | past | wanderer | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | compose | participle | wanderer not said here | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V»: agent=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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