Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 14, sentence 71
Brilliant birds flew from branch to branch before him, and sang with almost human voice.
Who acts: Brilliant birds · What happens: fly, sing · To what, where: branch
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 (Brilliant birds), 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 | Brilliant | brilliant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 birds | amod |
| 2 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 flew | nsubj |
| 3 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 5 branch | case |
| 5 | branch | branch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 flew | obl |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 branch | case |
| 7 | branch | branch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 flew | obl |
| 8 | before | before | ADP | _ | 9 him | case |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 flew | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 sang | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 sang | cc |
| 12 | sang | sing | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 flew | conj |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 voice | case |
| 14 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 15 human | advmod |
| 15 | human | human | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 voice | amod |
| 16 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 sang | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 flew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly | past | Brilliant birds | branch | before man | to branch | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.source PP.destination PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent from branch=Initial_Location to branch=Destination before he=Trajectory | ||
| 2 | sing speech: express | past | Brilliant birds not said here | with human voice | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with voice=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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