Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 15, sentence 98
Not a sigh breaks from thy swelling heart, not a lament from thy lips, not a sad note from the strings of the lute that lies hushed before thee.
Who acts: sigh, lute · What happens: not break, lie, hush
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 (sigh, lute), 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 | Not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 breaks | advmod |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 sigh | det |
| 3 | sigh | sigh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 breaks | nsubj |
| 4 | breaks | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 heart | case |
| 6 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 8 heart | nmod:poss |
| 7 | swelling | swelling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 heart | compound |
| 8 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 breaks | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 lament | punct |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 lament | advmod |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 lament | det |
| 12 | lament | lament | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 breaks | parataxis |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 15 lips | case |
| 14 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 15 lips | nmod:poss |
| 15 | lips | lip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 lament | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 note | punct |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 note | advmod |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 note | det |
| 19 | sad | sad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 note | amod |
| 20 | note | note | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 lament | conj |
| 21 | from | from | ADP | _ | 23 strings | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 strings | det |
| 23 | strings | string | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 note | nmod |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 lute | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 lute | det |
| 26 | lute | lute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 strings | nmod |
| 27 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 28 lies | nsubj |
| 28 | lies | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 lute | acl:relcl |
| 29 | hushed | hush | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 lies | xcomp |
| 30 | before | before | ADP | _ | 31 thee | case |
| 31 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 29 hushed | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 breaks | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not break | present | a sigh | from thy swelling heart; a lament from thy lips and a sad note from the strings of the lute parataxis | vn split-23.2 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient from heart=Co-Patient | ||||
| 2 | lie | present | the lute | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | hush | participle | the lute not said here | before thee | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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