Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 5, sentence 91
The blue heron flaps from the reeds, and away wings her course up the river; Straight and swift is her flight o'er the meads, but she hardly outstrips the canoemen.
Who acts: swift, mane · What happens: be, outstrip · To what, where: flight, canoemen, blue heron flaps
This is a sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Feast of the Virgins., part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (swift, mane), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 flaps | det |
| 2 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 flaps | amod |
| 3 | heron | heron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 flaps | compound |
| 4 | flaps | flap | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 reeds | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 reeds | det |
| 7 | reeds | reed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 flaps | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 wings | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 wings | cc |
| 10 | away | away | ADV | _ | 11 wings | advmod |
| 11 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 flaps | conj |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 course | nmod:poss |
| 13 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 wings | nmod |
| 14 | up | up | ADP | _ | 16 river | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 river | det |
| 16 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 wings | nmod |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 flight | punct |
| 18 | Straight | straight | ADV | _ | 23 flight | advmod |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 flight | cc |
| 20 | swift | swift | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 flight | nsubj |
| 21 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 flight | cop |
| 22 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 flight | nmod:poss |
| 23 | flight | flight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 flaps | conj |
| 24 | o'er | o'er | ADP | _ | 26 meads | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 meads | det |
| 26 | meads | mead | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 flight | nmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 outstrips | punct |
| 28 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 31 outstrips | cc |
| 29 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 outstrips | nsubj |
| 30 | hardly | hardly | ADV | _ | 31 outstrips | advmod |
| 31 | outstrips | outstrip | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 flaps | conj |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 canoemen | det |
| 33 | canoemen | canoemen | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 outstrips | obj |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 flaps | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | swift | mane's flight | o'er the meads; mane nmod:poss; straight property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | outstrip | present | mane | the canoemen | hardly property | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot canoemen=Theme |
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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