Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 6, sentence 40
Ah, little he dreamed then, forsooth, that a city would stand on that hill-side, And bear the proud name of Duluth, the untiring and dauntless explorer.
Who acts: DuLuth, city · What happens: dream, stand, bear, name · To what, where: hill side, proud name, Duluth
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 (DuLuth, city), 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 | Ah | ah | INTJ | _ | 5 dreamed | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Ah | punct |
| 3 | little | little | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 dreamed | advmod |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 dreamed | nsubj |
| 5 | dreamed | dream | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 forsooth | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 forsooth | punct |
| 8 | forsooth | forsooth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 dreamed | xcomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 stand | punct |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 stand | mark |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 city | det |
| 12 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 stand | nsubj |
| 13 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 stand | aux |
| 14 | stand | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 dreamed | conj |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 side | case |
| 16 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 19 side | det |
| 17 | hill | hill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 side | compound |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 hill | punct |
| 19 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 stand | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 bear | punct |
| 21 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 bear | cc |
| 22 | bear | bear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 stand | conj |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 name | det |
| 24 | proud | proud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 name | amod |
| 25 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 bear | obj |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 Duluth | case |
| 27 | Duluth | Duluth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 name | nmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 explorer | punct |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 explorer | det |
| 30 | untiring | untiring | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 explorer | amod |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 dauntless | cc |
| 32 | dauntless | dauntless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 untiring | conj |
| 33 | explorer | explorer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 Duluth | appos |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 dreamed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dream | past | DuLuth | forsooth, little property | vn cognize-85 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | stand | would | a city | that hill side | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on side=Location | ||||
| 3 | bear | infinitive | a city not said here | the proud name of Duluth | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=Patient | ||||
| 4 | name | Duluth | nom name «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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