Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 5, sentence 5
"The gentle air plays with the rustling leaves, Sweet with the fragrant odours it receives; My bosom with no whispered incense heaves: I am alone.
Who acts: gentle air, air, My · What happens: play, receive, whisper, bosom · To what, where: bosom, fragrant odours
This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., 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 (gentle air, air, My), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 plays | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 air | det |
| 3 | gentle | gentle | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 air | amod |
| 4 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 plays | nsubj |
| 5 | plays | play | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 leaves | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 leaves | det |
| 8 | rustling | rustling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 leaves | compound |
| 9 | leaves | leaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 plays | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 Sweet | punct |
| 11 | Sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 leaves | amod |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 odours | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 odours | det |
| 14 | fragrant | fragrant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 odours | amod |
| 15 | odours | odour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 Sweet | obl |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 receives | nsubj |
| 17 | receives | receive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 odours | acl:relcl |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 bosom | punct |
| 19 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 bosom | nmod:poss |
| 20 | bosom | bosom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 plays | obl |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 heaves | case |
| 22 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 25 heaves | det |
| 23 | whispered | whisper | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 heaves | amod |
| 24 | incense | incense | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 heaves | compound |
| 25 | heaves | heave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 bosom | nmod |
| 26 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 28 am | punct |
| 27 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 28 am | nsubj |
| 28 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 plays | conj |
| 29 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 28 am | advmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 plays | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | play in a quote | present | the gentle air | My bosom with no whispered incense heaves | with the rustling leaves | vn play-114.2-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with leaf=Theme | |||
| 2 | receive in a quote | present | air | the fragrant odours not said here | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent odour=Theme | ||||
| 3 | whisper speech: assert in a quote | participle | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | bosom in a quote | My | with no whispered incense heaves | nom bosom «state transitive»: poss=agent with=obl |
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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