Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 14, sentence 104
The crackling flames illuminated the country and the mountains, and invited the inhabitants of the near-lying vales and heights to the wild customs, the bloody sacrifices, and the raving dance of heathenism.
Who acts: crackling flames · What happens: illuminate, invite, lie, dance · To what, where: country, inhabitants, heathenism
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 (crackling flames), 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 | 3 flames | det |
| 2 | crackling | crackling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 flames | compound |
| 3 | flames | flame | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 illuminated | nsubj |
| 4 | illuminated | illuminate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 country | det |
| 6 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 illuminated | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 mountains | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 mountains | det |
| 9 | mountains | mountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 country | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 invited | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 invited | cc |
| 12 | invited | invite | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 illuminated | conj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 inhabitants | det |
| 14 | inhabitants | inhabitant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 invited | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 vales | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 vales | det |
| 17 | near | near | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 lying | compound |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 near | punct |
| 19 | lying | lie | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 20 vales | amod |
| 20 | vales | vale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 inhabitants | nmod |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 heights | cc |
| 22 | heights | height | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 vales | conj |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 customs | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 customs | det |
| 25 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 customs | amod |
| 26 | customs | custom | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 vales | nmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 sacrifices | punct |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 sacrifices | det |
| 29 | bloody | bloody | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 sacrifices | amod |
| 30 | sacrifices | sacrifice | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 customs | conj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 dance | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 dance | cc |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 dance | det |
| 34 | raving | raving | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 dance | amod |
| 35 | dance | dance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 illuminated | obl |
| 36 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 heathenism | case |
| 37 | heathenism | heathenism | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 dance | nmod |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 illuminated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | illuminate | past | the crackling flames | the country and the mountains | the raving dance of heathenism obl | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent country=Destination | |||
| 2 | invite | past | the crackling flames not said here | the inhabitants of the lying vales to the wild customs and the bloody sacrifices and heights | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent inhabitant=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | lie | gerund | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | dance | heathenism | nom dance «communication 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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