Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 6, sentence 19
His shrill voice they heard as they fled, but only the echoes made answer.
Who acts: shrill voice, cowards, echoes · What happens: hear, flee, make · To what, where: answer · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Feast of the Virgins., part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (shrill voice, cowards, echoes), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 voice | nmod:poss |
| 2 | shrill | shrill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 voice | amod |
| 3 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 heard | nsubj |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 heard | nsubj |
| 5 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 8 fled | mark |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 fled | nsubj |
| 8 | fled | flee | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 heard | ccomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 made | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 made | cc |
| 11 | only | only | ADV | _ | 13 echoes | advmod |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 echoes | det |
| 13 | echoes | echo | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 made | nsubj |
| 14 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 heard | conj |
| 15 | answer | answer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 made | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | DuLuth's shrill voice | cowards = coward nsubj | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | flee | past | cowards = coward | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | make | past | the echoes | answer | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset answer=Product |
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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