Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 7, sentence 125
And a thousand torches light up the forest, and the echo of a thousand voices rings far and wide.
Who acts: thousand torches, echo · What happens: light up, ring · To what, where: forest
This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., 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 (thousand torches, echo), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 light | cc |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 torches | det |
| 3 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 torches | nummod |
| 4 | torches | torch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 light | nsubj |
| 5 | light | light | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | up | up | ADP | _ | 5 light | compound:prt |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 forest | det |
| 8 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 light | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 rings | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 rings | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 echo | det |
| 12 | echo | echo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 rings | nsubj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 voices | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 thousand | det |
| 15 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 voices | nummod |
| 16 | voices | voice | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 echo | nmod |
| 17 | rings | ring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 light | parataxis |
| 18 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 17 rings | advmod |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 wide | cc |
| 20 | wide | wide | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 far | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 light | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | light up | present | a thousand torches | the forest | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent forest=Product | ||||
| 2 | ring | present | the echo of thousand voices | far property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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