Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 10, sentence 105
The disc of the moon blinked only seldom through the dark clouds, which, restless, and ever succeeded by new ones, chased each other across the heavens.
Who acts: disc · What happens: blink, succeed, chase · To what, where: dark clouds, other, heavens
This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (disc), 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 disc | det |
| 2 | disc | disc | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 blinked | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 moon | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 moon | det |
| 5 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 disc | nmod |
| 6 | blinked | blink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | only | only | ADV | _ | 8 seldom | advmod |
| 8 | seldom | seldom | ADV | _ | 6 blinked | advmod |
| 9 | through | through | ADP | _ | 12 clouds | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 clouds | det |
| 11 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 clouds | amod |
| 12 | clouds | cloud | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 blinked | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 restless | punct |
| 14 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 restless | nsubj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 restless | punct |
| 16 | restless | restless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 clouds | acl:relcl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 succeeded | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 succeeded | cc |
| 19 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 20 succeeded | advmod |
| 20 | succeeded | succeed | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 blinked | parataxis |
| 21 | by | by | ADP | _ | 23 ones | case |
| 22 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 ones | amod |
| 23 | ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 succeeded | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 chased | punct |
| 25 | chased | chase | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 succeeded | conj |
| 26 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 27 other | det |
| 27 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 chased | obj |
| 28 | across | across | ADP | _ | 30 heavens | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 heavens | det |
| 30 | heavens | heaven | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 chased | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 blinked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | blink | past | the disc of the moon | the dark clouds | seldom property | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through cloud=Location | |||
| 2 | succeed | participle | ever | by new ones | vn succeed-74-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | chase | participle | each other | the heavens | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent other=Theme across heaven=Trajectory |
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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