Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 8, sentence 8
From the dark cave issues a light form, and a cry of joy resounds through the whole forest.
Who acts: light form, joy · What happens: resound, cry · To what, where: dark cave issues
This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (light form, joy), 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 | _ | 5 issues | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 issues | det |
| 3 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 issues | amod |
| 4 | cave | cave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 issues | compound |
| 5 | issues | issue | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 resounds | obl |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 form | det |
| 7 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 form | compound |
| 8 | form | form | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 resounds | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 cry | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 cry | cc |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 cry | det |
| 12 | cry | cry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 form | appos |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 joy | case |
| 14 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 cry | nmod |
| 15 | resounds | resound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | through | through | ADP | _ | 19 forest | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 forest | det |
| 18 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 forest | amod |
| 19 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 resounds | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 resounds | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | resound | present | a light form | the dark cave issues | through the whole forest | vn sound_existence-47.4 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through forest=Location | |||
| 2 | cry | joy | nom cry «communication intransitive»: of=agent |
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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