Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 1, sentence 95
And a loud voice rose above the raging waves, "The Hell-dog lies in chains!
Who acts: loud voice · What happens: rise, rage · To what, where: raging waves
This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (loud 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 rose | cc |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 voice | det |
| 3 | loud | loud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 voice | amod |
| 4 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 rose | nsubj |
| 5 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | above | above | ADP | _ | 9 waves | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 waves | det |
| 8 | raging | rage | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 waves | amod |
| 9 | waves | wave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 rose | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 lies | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 lies | punct |
| 12 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 dog | det |
| 13 | Hell | Hell | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 dog | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 Hell | punct |
| 15 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 lies | compound |
| 16 | lies | lie | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 waves | conj |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 chains | case |
| 18 | chains | chain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 lies | nmod |
| 19 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 rose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rise | past | a loud voice | the raging waves and dog lies in chains | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent above wave=Location | ||||
| 2 | rage | gerund | vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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