Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 7, sentence 67
Dost thou remember the time when we listened to the rustling and moaning of the fir-trees, like echoes of the voices of olden times?
Who acts: we · What happens: do, remember, listen · To what, where: thou
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 (we), 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 | Dost | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 1 Dost | obj |
| 3 | remember | remember | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Dost | xcomp |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 time | det |
| 5 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 remember | obj |
| 6 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 listened | advmod |
| 7 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 listened | nsubj |
| 8 | listened | listen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 remember | advcl |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 rustling | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 rustling | det |
| 11 | rustling | rustling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 listened | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 moaning | cc |
| 13 | moaning | moaning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 rustling | conj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 trees | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 trees | det |
| 16 | fir | fir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 trees | compound |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 fir | punct |
| 18 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 moaning | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 echoes | punct |
| 20 | like | like | ADP | _ | 21 echoes | case |
| 21 | echoes | echo | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 trees | conj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 voices | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 voices | det |
| 24 | voices | voice | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 echoes | nmod |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 times | case |
| 26 | olden | olden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 times | amod |
| 27 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 voices | nmod |
| 28 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Dost | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | present | thou | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | remember | infinitive | time | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | listen | past | we | to the rustling and moaning of the fir trees and echoes of the voices of olden times | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to rustling=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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74323/8/67/