Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 4, sentence 18
On an arm of an oak hangs the prize for the swiftest and strongest of runners-- A blanket as red as the skies, when the flames sweep the plains in October.
Who acts: flames · What happens: hang, sweep · To what, where: prize, arm, plains
This is a sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Feast of the Virgins., part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (flames), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 3 arm | case |
| 2 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 arm | det |
| 3 | arm | arm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 hangs | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 oak | case |
| 5 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 oak | det |
| 6 | oak | oak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 arm | nmod |
| 7 | hangs | hang | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 prize | det |
| 9 | prize | prize | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 hangs | obj |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 runners | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 runners | det |
| 12 | swiftest | swift | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 16 runners | amod |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 strongest | cc |
| 14 | strongest | strong | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 16 runners | amod |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 runners | case |
| 16 | runners | runner | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 hangs | obl |
| 17 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 19 blanket | punct |
| 18 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 blanket | det |
| 19 | blanket | blanket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 runners | conj |
| 20 | as | as | ADP | _ | 21 red | case |
| 21 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 blanket | nmod |
| 22 | as | as | ADP | _ | 24 skies | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 skies | det |
| 24 | skies | sky | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 red | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 sweep | punct |
| 26 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 29 sweep | mark |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 flames | det |
| 28 | flames | flame | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 sweep | nsubj |
| 29 | sweep | sweep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 hangs | conj |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 plains | det |
| 31 | plains | plain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 sweep | obj |
| 32 | in | in | ADP | _ | 33 October | case |
| 33 | October | October | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 sweep | obl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 hangs | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hang | present | the prize | a arm of a oak | for the swiftest strongest runners and a blanket as red as the skies | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent prize=Theme on arm=Destination | |||
| 2 | sweep | present | the flames | the plains | october | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme plain=Trajectory |
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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