Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 15, sentence 10
And at this moment the sun shone forth from behind thick clouds, bathing rocks and wood with a warm, rosy light, and the birds in a thousand voices sang the praises of Creator and Father.
Who acts: sun, birds · What happens: shine, sing, praise · To what, where: thick clouds, praises, Creator
This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sun, 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 shone | cc |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 4 moment | case |
| 3 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 moment | det |
| 4 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 shone | obl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 sun | det |
| 6 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 shone | nsubj |
| 7 | shone | shine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 7 shone | advmod |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 clouds | case |
| 10 | behind | behind | ADV | _ | 11 thick | advmod |
| 11 | thick | thick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 clouds | amod |
| 12 | clouds | cloud | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 shone | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 rocks | punct |
| 14 | bathing | bathing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 rocks | compound |
| 15 | rocks | rock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 clouds | conj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 wood | cc |
| 17 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 clouds | conj |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 light | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 light | det |
| 20 | warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 light | amod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 warm | punct |
| 22 | rosy | rosy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 light | amod |
| 23 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 shone | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 sang | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 sang | cc |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 birds | det |
| 27 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 sang | nsubj |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 voices | case |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 thousand | det |
| 30 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 31 voices | nummod |
| 31 | voices | voice | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 birds | nmod |
| 32 | sang | sing | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 shone | conj |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 praises | det |
| 34 | praises | praise | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 sang | obj |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 Creator | case |
| 36 | Creator | Creator | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 praises | nmod |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 Father | cc |
| 38 | Father | Father | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 Creator | conj |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 shone | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shine | past | the sun | thick clouds and bathing rocks and wood | moment | with a warm rosy light; forth property | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with light=Theme | ||
| 2 | sing speech: express | past | the birds in thousand voices | the praises of Creator and Father | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location praise=Theme | ||||
| 3 | praise | Creator and Father | nom praise «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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