Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 14, sentence 101
Bright were the fires to Krodo in the darkness of the night, and on the opposite cliffs rose the fire pillar in honour of the goddess Ostera.
Who acts: Bright fires · What happens: be, rise, honour · To what, where: Bright fires, Krodo, darkness, fire pillar, opposite cliffs, goddess
This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Bright fires), 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 | Bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 fires | amod |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 fires | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 fires | det |
| 4 | fires | fire | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 rose | nsubj |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 Krodo | case |
| 6 | Krodo | Krodo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 fires | nmod |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 darkness | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 darkness | det |
| 9 | darkness | darkness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 fires | nmod |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 night | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 night | det |
| 12 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 darkness | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 rose | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 rose | cc |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 cliffs | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 cliffs | det |
| 17 | opposite | opposite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 cliffs | amod |
| 18 | cliffs | cliff | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 rose | obl |
| 19 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 pillar | det |
| 21 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 pillar | compound |
| 22 | pillar | pillar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 rose | obj |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 honour | case |
| 24 | honour | honour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 rose | obl |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 goddess | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 goddess | det |
| 27 | goddess | goddess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 honour | nmod |
| 28 | Ostera | Ostera | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 goddess | appos |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 rose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the Bright fires | Krodo | the darkness of the night | tree rules | |||
| 2 | rise | past | the Bright fires | the fire pillar | the opposite cliffs | in honour of the goddess | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location pillar=Theme | ||
| 3 | honour | the goddess | nom honour «state transitive»: of=patient |
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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