Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 7, sentence 41
The tones seem to come down to us from the eternal heights, and remind us of our duty and our better home."
Who acts: tones · What happens: seem, come down, remind · To what, where: us, eternal heights
This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tones), 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 tones | det |
| 2 | tones | tone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 seem | nsubj |
| 3 | seem | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 come | mark |
| 5 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 seem | xcomp |
| 6 | down | down | ADV | _ | 5 come | advmod |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 us | case |
| 8 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 come | obl |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 heights | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 heights | det |
| 11 | eternal | eternal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 heights | amod |
| 12 | heights | height | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 come | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 remind | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 remind | cc |
| 15 | remind | remind | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 seem | conj |
| 16 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 remind | iobj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 duty | case |
| 18 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 duty | nmod:poss |
| 19 | duty | duty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 remind | obl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 home | cc |
| 21 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 home | nmod:poss |
| 22 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 23 home | amod |
| 23 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 duty | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 seem | punct |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 seem | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seem | present | the tones | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 2 | come down | to-infinitive | the tones not said here | us | the eternal heights | down property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme to we=Initial_Location from height=Destination | ||
| 3 | remind speech: other | infinitive | the tones not said here | us | of our duty and our better home | vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient PP.topic»: agent=Agent we=Recipient of duty=Topic |
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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