Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 6, sentence 48
O sweet is the carol of bird, And sweet is the murmur of streams, But sweeter the voice that I heard-- In the night--in the midst of my dreams.
Who acts: sweet, voice, I, my · What happens: be, hear, dream · To what, where: carol, murmur, voice
This is a sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Feast of the Virgins., part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sweet, voice, I, 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 | O | o | INTJ | _ | 2 sweet | discourse |
| 2 | sweet | sweet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 carol | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 carol | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 carol | det |
| 5 | carol | carol | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 bird | case |
| 7 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 carol | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 murmur | punct |
| 9 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 murmur | cc |
| 10 | sweet | sweet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 murmur | nsubj |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 murmur | cop |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 murmur | det |
| 13 | murmur | murmur | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 carol | appos |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 streams | case |
| 15 | streams | stream | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 murmur | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 sweeter | punct |
| 17 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 sweeter | cc |
| 18 | sweeter | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 5 carol | conj |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 voice | det |
| 20 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 sweeter | nsubj |
| 21 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 heard | obj |
| 22 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 heard | nsubj |
| 23 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 voice | acl:relcl |
| 24 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 27 night | punct |
| 25 | In | in | ADP | _ | 27 night | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 night | det |
| 27 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 heard | obl:unmarked |
| 28 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 31 midst | punct |
| 29 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 midst | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 midst | det |
| 31 | midst | midst | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 heard | conj |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 dreams | case |
| 33 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 dreams | nmod:poss |
| 34 | dreams | dream | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 midst | nmod |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 carol | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | sweet | the carol | of bird | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is a | present | sweet | the murmur | of streams | tree rules | |||
| 3 | be | the voice | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | hear | past | I | the voice | night | the midst of my dreams conj | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer that=Stimulus | ||
| 5 | dream | my | nom dream «cognition transitive»: poss=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 of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, Project Gutenberg book 8122 (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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