Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 7, sentence 136
Nay; look on the dizzy cliff high! --on the brink of the cliff stands Winona!
Who acts: you, brink · What happens: look, stand · To what, where: Winona
This is a sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Feast of the Virgins., part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, brink), 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 | Nay | nay | INTJ | _ | 3 look | discourse |
| 2 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nay | punct |
| 3 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 cliff | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 cliff | det |
| 6 | dizzy | dizzy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 cliff | amod |
| 7 | cliff | cliff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 look | obl |
| 8 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 cliff | amod |
| 9 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 look | punct |
| 10 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 13 brink | punct |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 brink | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 brink | det |
| 13 | brink | brink | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 stands | nsubj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 cliff | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 cliff | det |
| 16 | cliff | cliff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 brink | nmod |
| 17 | stands | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 look | parataxis |
| 18 | Winona | Winona | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 stands | obj |
| 19 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 look | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | imperative | you not said here | on the dizzy cliff | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on cliff=Theme | ||||
| 2 | stand | present | the brink of the cliff | Winona | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer winona=Stimulus |
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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