Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 2, sentence 115
The nuns, the Abbess at their head, chant the mournful dirge, and the organ weeps and wails as if it were the very soul of sorrow.
Who acts: nuns, organ · What happens: chant, weep, wail, be · To what, where: mournful dirge
This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (nuns, organ), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 nuns | det |
| 2 | nuns | nun | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 chant | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Abbess | punct |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Abbess | det |
| 5 | Abbess | Abbess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 nuns | nmod |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 head | case |
| 7 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 head | nmod:poss |
| 8 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 Abbess | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 nuns | punct |
| 10 | chant | chant | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 dirge | det |
| 12 | mournful | mournful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 dirge | amod |
| 13 | dirge | dirge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 chant | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 weeps | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 weeps | cc |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 organ | det |
| 17 | organ | organ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 weeps | nsubj |
| 18 | weeps | weep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 chant | parataxis |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 wails | cc |
| 20 | wails | wail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 weeps | conj |
| 21 | as | as | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 27 soul | case |
| 22 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 21 as | fixed |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 soul | nsubj |
| 24 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 soul | cop |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 soul | det |
| 26 | very | very | ADV | _ | 27 soul | advmod |
| 27 | soul | soul | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 wails | obl |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 sorrow | case |
| 29 | sorrow | sorrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 soul | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 chant | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | chant | present | the nuns the Abbess at Abbesses's head | the mournful dirge | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dirge=Topic | ||||
| 2 | weep | present | the organ | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | wail | present | the organ not said here | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is | past | organ | as the soul; of sorrow | tree rules |
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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