Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 9, sentence 97
Perhaps he would have sung on to the end of the hymn, had not a voice, clear as a silver bell, greeted him with "Guten Morgen!"
Who acts: Herze · What happens: sing, have, greet · To what, where: end, voice, Herze
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 (Herze), 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 | Perhaps | perhaps | ADV | _ | 5 sung | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 sung | nsubj |
| 3 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 sung | aux |
| 4 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 sung | aux |
| 5 | sung | sing | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 end | case |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 end | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 end | det |
| 9 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sung | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 hymn | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 hymn | det |
| 12 | hymn | hymn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 end | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 had | punct |
| 14 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 sung | conj |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 voice | advmod |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 voice | det |
| 17 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 had | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 clear | punct |
| 19 | clear | clear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 voice | conj |
| 20 | as | as | ADP | _ | 23 bell | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 bell | det |
| 22 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 bell | compound |
| 23 | bell | bell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 clear | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 greeted | punct |
| 25 | greeted | greet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 had | parataxis |
| 26 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 greeted | obj |
| 27 | with | with | ADP | _ | 30 Morgen | case |
| 28 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 30 Morgen | punct |
| 29 | Guten | Guten | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 Morgen | compound |
| 30 | Morgen | Morgen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 greeted | obl |
| 31 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 sung | punct |
| 32 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 sung | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sing speech: express | would · perfect | Herze | on the end of the hymn | perhaps property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on end=Location | |||
| 2 | have | past | Herze not said here | a voice | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent voice=Patient | ||||
| 3 | greet speech: greet | past | Herze | with Guten Morgen | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
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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