Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 15, sentence 62
And a ghostly voice whispers, "Ride on, wicked knight, till the day of eternal retribution; but do not terrify the good, only the wicked.
Who acts: ghostly voice · What happens: whisper, ride on, not terrify · To what, where: wicked knight, good · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (ghostly voice), 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 | _ | 5 whispers | cc |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 voice | det |
| 3 | ghostly | ghostly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 voice | amod |
| 4 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 whispers | nsubj |
| 5 | whispers | whisper | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 Ride | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 Ride | punct |
| 8 | Ride | ride | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 whispers | ccomp |
| 9 | on | on | ADV | _ | 8 Ride | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 knight | punct |
| 11 | wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 knight | amod |
| 12 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 Ride | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 day | punct |
| 14 | till | till | ADP | _ | 16 day | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 day | det |
| 16 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 Ride | obl:unmarked |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 retribution | case |
| 18 | eternal | eternal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 retribution | amod |
| 19 | retribution | retribution | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 day | nmod |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 terrify | punct |
| 21 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 24 terrify | cc |
| 22 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 24 terrify | aux |
| 23 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 24 terrify | advmod |
| 24 | terrify | terrify | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 Ride | conj |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 good | det |
| 26 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 terrify | obj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 wicked | punct |
| 28 | only | only | ADV | _ | 30 wicked | advmod |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 wicked | det |
| 30 | wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 good | conj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 whispers | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | whisper speech: assert | present | a ghostly voice | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | ride on in a quote | infinitive | wicked knight | day | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | not terrify in a quote | infinitive · do-support | the good | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus good=Experiencer |
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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