Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 5, sentence 69
The heavens gathered blackness, the water of the river seemed to sing a death-song, and the flowers on its banks to weep.
Who acts: heavens, water, flowers · What happens: gather, seem, sing, weep · To what, where: blackness, death song
This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (heavens, water, flowers), 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 heavens | det |
| 2 | heavens | heaven | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 gathered | nsubj |
| 3 | gathered | gather | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | blackness | blackness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gathered | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 water | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 water | det |
| 7 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 blackness | appos |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 river | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 river | det |
| 10 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 seemed | obl |
| 11 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 water | acl:relcl |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 sing | mark |
| 13 | sing | sing | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 seemed | xcomp |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 song | det |
| 15 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 song | compound |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 death | punct |
| 17 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 sing | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 weep | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 weep | cc |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 flowers | det |
| 21 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 weep | nsubj |
| 22 | on | on | ADP | _ | 24 banks | case |
| 23 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 banks | nmod:poss |
| 24 | banks | bank | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 flowers | nmod |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 weep | mark |
| 26 | weep | weep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 gathered | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 gathered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gather | past | the heavens | blackness | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blackness=Theme | ||||
| 2 | seem | past | the water not said here | of the river | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | sing speech: express | to-infinitive | the water not said here | a death song | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location song=Theme | ||||
| 4 | weep | to-infinitive | the flowers on song's banks | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=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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