Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 16, sentence 7
Beneath, on the river-banks, sounds the soft flute-like voice of the white-breasted plover, the whistling of the thistle-finch; and the blackbird and linnet, the cross-bill and thrush make the green halls merry with their ringing voices.
Who acts: blackbird, green halls, thistle finch · What happens: sound, breast, make, merry, whistle · To what, where: soft like voice
This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (blackbird, green halls, thistle finch), 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 | Beneath | beneath | INTJ | _ | 9 sounds | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 banks | punct |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 banks | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 banks | det |
| 5 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 banks | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 river | punct |
| 7 | banks | bank | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Beneath | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Beneath | punct |
| 9 | sounds | sound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 voice | det |
| 11 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 voice | amod |
| 12 | flute | flute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 like | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 flute | punct |
| 14 | like | like | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 voice | amod |
| 15 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sounds | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 plover | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 plover | det |
| 18 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 breasted | compound |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 white | punct |
| 20 | breasted | breast | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 plover | amod |
| 21 | plover | plover | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 voice | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 whistling | punct |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 whistling | det |
| 24 | whistling | whistling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 plover | appos |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 finch | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 finch | det |
| 27 | thistle | thistle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 finch | compound |
| 28 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 27 thistle | punct |
| 29 | finch | finch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 whistling | nmod |
| 30 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 41 make | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 make | cc |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 blackbird | det |
| 33 | blackbird | blackbird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 make | nsubj |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 linnet | cc |
| 35 | linnet | linnet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 blackbird | conj |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 cross-bill | punct |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 cross-bill | det |
| 38 | cross-bill | cross-bill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 blackbird | conj |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 thrush | cc |
| 40 | thrush | thrush | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 cross-bill | conj |
| 41 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 sounds | conj |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 halls | det |
| 43 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 halls | amod |
| 44 | halls | hall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 45 merry | nsubj |
| 45 | merry | merry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 41 make | xcomp |
| 46 | with | with | ADP | _ | 49 voices | case |
| 47 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 49 voices | nmod:poss |
| 48 | ringing | ringing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 voices | compound |
| 49 | voices | voice | NOUN | Number=Plur | 45 merry | obl |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 sounds | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sound | present | the soft like voice of the breasted plover | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | breast | participle | vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | make | present | the blackbird and linnet and the cross-bill and thrush | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | merry | present | the green halls | with halls's ringing voices | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | whistle | the thistle finch | nom whistling «event intransitive»: of=agent |
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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