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title: The songs of the birds rang out of the thickets, and soft chimes ros… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: The songs of the birds rang out of the thickets, and soft chimes rose from the villages summoning to worship and praise---a mild, blissful peace hovered over the entire scene. Who acts: songs, soft chimes, villages, mild blissful peace. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toof
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 9, sentence 78

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The songs of the birds rang out of the thickets, and soft chimes rose from the villages summoning to worship and praise---a mild, blissful peace hovered over the entire scene.

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**Who acts:** songs, soft chimes, villages, mild blissful peace, birds · **What happens:** ring out, rise, summon, worship, praise, hover · **To what, where:** thickets, villages, entire scene

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This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (songs, soft chimes, villages, mild blissful peace), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg74323:10:78
# text = The songs of the birds rang out of the thickets, and soft chimes rose from the villages summoning to worship and praise---a mild, blissful peace hovered over the entire scene.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	songs	song	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
6	rang	ring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	out	out	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	thickets	thicket	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	soft	soft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	chimes	chime	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
15	rose	rise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
16	from	from	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	villages	village	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
19	summoning	summon	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	18	acl	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	worship	worship	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	xcomp	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	praise	praise	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	---	---	PUNCT	:	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
26	mild	mild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
28	blissful	blissful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	peace	peace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
30	hovered	hover	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
31	over	over	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	entire	entire	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	scene	scene	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ring out** | past | the songs of the birds | the thickets |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location thicket=Theme |
| 2 | **rise** | past | soft chimes |  |  | the villages |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from village=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **summon** | gerund | the villages *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **worship** | to-infinitive | the villages *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **praise** | infinitive | the villages *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **hover** | past | a mild blissful peace |  |  | the entire scene |  |  | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over scene=Location |
| 7 | **sing** |  | the birds |  |  |  |  |  | nom song «communication intransitive»: of=agent |

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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.

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**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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