Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 9, sentence 88
He began again to move forward, singing that noblest hymn in the German language, which has been so perfectly translated by John Wesley, beginning--
Who acts: father, John · What happens: begin, move forward, sing, translate · To what, where: noblest hymn, German language
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 (father, 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 began | nsubj |
| 2 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | again | again | ADV | _ | 2 began | advmod |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 move | mark |
| 5 | move | move | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 began | xcomp |
| 6 | forward | forward | ADV | _ | 5 move | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 singing | punct |
| 8 | singing | sing | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 began | advcl |
| 9 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 hymn | det |
| 10 | noblest | noble | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 11 hymn | amod |
| 11 | hymn | hymn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 singing | obj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 language | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 language | det |
| 14 | German | German | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 language | amod |
| 15 | language | language | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 singing | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 translated | punct |
| 17 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 translated | obj |
| 18 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 translated | aux |
| 19 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 22 translated | aux:pass |
| 20 | so | so | ADV | _ | 22 translated | advmod |
| 21 | perfectly | perfectly | ADV | _ | 22 translated | advmod |
| 22 | translated | translate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 language | acl:relcl |
| 23 | by | by | ADP | _ | 24 John | case |
| 24 | John | John | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 translated | obl:agent |
| 25 | Wesley | Wesley | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 John | flat |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 beginning | punct |
| 27 | beginning | begin | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 singing | conj |
| 28 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 2 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past | father | again | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | move forward | to-infinitive | father not said here | forward property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | sing speech: express | gerund | father not said here | that noblest hymn | the German language | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location hymn=Theme | |||
| 4 | translate | present · perfect · passive | John | the German language | perfectly property | vn turn-26.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Patient | |||
| 5 | begin | gerund | father not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
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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