Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 3, sentence 38
From these grey ruins, from the grim vaults, the half-fallen tower, and the deep dungeon, breathes the spirit of the past, and whispers many a legendary note in the ear.
What happens: fall, breathe, whisper · To what, where: spirit, grey ruins, many, ear
This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | From | from | ADP | _ | 4 ruins | case |
| 2 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 4 ruins | det |
| 3 | grey | grey | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 ruins | amod |
| 4 | ruins | ruin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 breathes | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 vaults | punct |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 vaults | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 vaults | det |
| 8 | grim | grim | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 vaults | amod |
| 9 | vaults | vault | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 ruins | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 tower | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 tower | det |
| 12 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 14 fallen | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 half | punct |
| 14 | fallen | fall | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 tower | amod |
| 15 | tower | tower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 vaults | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 dungeon | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 dungeon | cc |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 dungeon | det |
| 19 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 dungeon | amod |
| 20 | dungeon | dungeon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 ruins | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 ruins | punct |
| 22 | breathes | breathe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 spirit | det |
| 24 | spirit | spirit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 breathes | obj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 past | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 past | det |
| 27 | past | past | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 spirit | nmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 whispers | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 whispers | cc |
| 30 | whispers | whisper | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 breathes | conj |
| 31 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 whispers | obj |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 note | det |
| 33 | legendary | legendary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 note | amod |
| 34 | note | note | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 whispers | obj |
| 35 | in | in | ADP | _ | 37 ear | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 ear | det |
| 37 | ear | ear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 whispers | obl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 22 breathes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | participle | half compound | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | breathe | present | the spirit of the past | this grey ruins and the grim vaults and the fallen tower and the deep dungeon | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spirit=Theme | ||||
| 3 | whisper speech: assert | present | many | the ear | a legendary note obj | 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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