Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 2, sentence 70

And now, though it still had the tone of a mighty wind roaring among the branches, it was also like a deep bass voice, speaking as distinctly as a tree could be expected to speak, the following words:

Who acts: tongue, mighty wind, tree · What happens: have, roar, be, speak, expect, follow · To what, where: tone, branches, tree, mighty wind · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Golden Fleece., part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tongue, mighty wind, tree), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	And	and	CCONJ	_	7 had	cc
2	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 had	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 had	punct
4	though	though	SCONJ	_	7 had	mark
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 had	nsubj
6	still	still	ADV	_	7 had	advmod
7	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 tone	det
9	tone	tone	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 had	obj
10	of	of	ADP	_	13 wind	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 wind	det
12	mighty	mighty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 wind	amod
13	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 tone	nmod
14	roaring	roar	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 wind	acl
15	among	among	ADP	_	17 branches	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 branches	det
17	branches	branch	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 roaring	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 voice	punct
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 voice	nsubj
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 voice	cop
21	also	also	ADV	_	26 voice	advmod
22	like	like	ADP	_	26 voice	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 voice	det
24	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 voice	amod
25	bass	bass	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 voice	compound
26	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 had	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 speaking	punct
28	speaking	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	26 voice	nmod
29	as	as	ADV	_	30 distinctly	advmod
30	distinctly	distinctly	ADV	_	28 speaking	advmod
31	as	as	SCONJ	_	36 expected	mark
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 tree	det
33	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 expected	nsubj:pass
34	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 expected	aux
35	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	36 expected	aux:pass
36	expected	expect	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 speaking	advcl
37	to	to	PART	_	38 speak	mark
38	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 expected	xcomp
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 words	punct
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 words	det
41	following	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	42 words	amod
42	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 voice	conj
43	:	:	PUNCT	_	7 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	tongue	the tone of a mighty wind		now; still		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tone=Patient
2	roar	gerund	a mighty wind not said here		the branches			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme among branch=Location
3	is	past	tongue				like a deep bass voice and the following words	tree rules
4	speak speech: other	gerund					distinctly property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	expect	could · passive		a tree				tree rules
6	speak speech: other not said to happen	to-infinitive	a tree not said here					vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	follow	gerund						vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	intonate			a mighty wind				nom tone «communication transitive»: of=patient

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: «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Project Gutenberg book 976 (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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