Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 7, sentence 43
The chimes possess an incomprehensible power over the mind, and awake the inner life to devotion and holy reflections; and I never look across to the towers whence those bold and fearless tones rise on the air, without seeing in them landmarks pointing to heaven."
Who acts: chimes, I, bold tones, seeing · What happens: possess, awake, not look, rise, see, landmark · To what, where: incomprehensible power, mind, inner life, air, heaven
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 (chimes, I, bold tones, seeing), 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 chimes | det |
| 2 | chimes | chime | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 possess | nsubj |
| 3 | possess | possess | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 power | det |
| 5 | incomprehensible | incomprehensible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 power | amod |
| 6 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 possess | obj |
| 7 | over | over | ADP | _ | 9 mind | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 mind | det |
| 9 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 possess | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 awake | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 awake | cc |
| 12 | awake | awake | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 possess | conj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 life | det |
| 14 | inner | inner | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 life | amod |
| 15 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 awake | obj |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 devotion | case |
| 17 | devotion | devotion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 life | nmod |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 reflections | cc |
| 19 | holy | holy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 reflections | amod |
| 20 | reflections | reflection | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 devotion | conj |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 look | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 look | cc |
| 23 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 look | nsubj |
| 24 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 25 look | advmod |
| 25 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 possess | parataxis |
| 26 | across | across | ADV | _ | 25 look | advmod |
| 27 | to | to | ADP | _ | 29 towers | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 towers | det |
| 29 | towers | tower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 look | obl |
| 30 | whence | whence | ADV | PronType=Int | 36 rise | advmod |
| 31 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 35 tones | det |
| 32 | bold | bold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 tones | amod |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 fearless | cc |
| 34 | fearless | fearless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 bold | conj |
| 35 | tones | tone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 rise | nsubj |
| 36 | rise | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 towers | acl:relcl |
| 37 | on | on | ADP | _ | 39 air | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 air | det |
| 39 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 rise | obl |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 seeing | punct |
| 41 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 42 seeing | mark |
| 42 | seeing | see | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 45 landmarks | csubj |
| 43 | in | in | ADP | _ | 44 them | case |
| 44 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 seeing | obl |
| 45 | landmarks | landmark | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 look | parataxis |
| 46 | pointing | point | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 45 landmarks | xcomp |
| 47 | to | to | ADP | _ | 48 heaven | case |
| 48 | heaven | heaven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 pointing | obl |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 possess | punct |
| 50 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 possess | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | possess | present | the chimes | a incomprehensible power | the mind | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot power=Theme | |||
| 2 | awake | infinitive | the chimes not said here | the inner life | to devotion and holy reflections | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location life=Theme | |||
| 3 | not look | present | I | to the towers; across property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to tower=Theme | ||||
| 4 | rise | present | that bold tones | the air | whence property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on air=Location | |||
| 5 | see | gerund | in tones = tone | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 6 | landmark | present | seeing | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | point | gerund | seeing not said here | heaven | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to heaven=Recipient |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74323/24/43/