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title: And at this moment the sun shone forth from behind thick clouds, bat… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: And at this moment the sun shone forth from behind thick clouds, bathing rocks and wood with a warm, rosy light, and the birds in a thousand voices sang the praises of Creator and Father. Who acts: sun, birds. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tale
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 15, sentence 10

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And at this moment the sun shone forth from behind thick clouds, bathing rocks and wood with a warm, rosy light, and the birds in a thousand voices sang the praises of Creator and Father.

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**Who acts:** sun, birds · **What happens:** shine, sing, praise · **To what, where:** thick clouds, praises, Creator

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This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sun, birds), 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:pg74323:16:10
# text = And at this moment the sun shone forth from behind thick clouds, bathing rocks and wood with a warm, rosy light, and the birds in a thousand voices sang the praises of Creator and Father.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
2	at	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
4	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	shone	shine	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
9	from	from	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	behind	behind	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	thick	thick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	clouds	cloud	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	bathing	bathing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	rocks	rock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
20	warm	warm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
22	rosy	rosy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	nsubj	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	thousand	thousand	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	31	nummod	_	_
31	voices	voice	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nmod	_	_
32	sang	sing	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	praises	praise	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obj	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	Creator	Creator	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
38	Father	Father	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **shine** | past | the sun |  |  | thick clouds and bathing rocks and wood | moment | with a warm rosy light; forth *property* | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with light=Theme |
| 2 | **sing** *speech: express* | past | the birds in thousand voices | the praises of Creator and Father |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location praise=Theme |
| 3 | **praise** |  |  | Creator and Father |  |  |  |  | nom praise «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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