Legends of the Northwest, The Legend of the Falls., sentence 18
Hark!--the waters hush their sighing, and the whippowil her call, Through the moon-lit mists are flying dusky shadows silent all.
Who acts: Hark, whippowil, lit mists · What happens: hush, call, lit, fly · To what, where: sighing, dusky shadows · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Legend of the Falls.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hark, whippowil, lit mists), 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 | Hark | Hark | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 hush | nsubj |
| 2 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Hark | punct |
| 3 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 1 Hark | punct |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 waters | det |
| 5 | waters | water | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 hush | nsubj |
| 6 | hush | hush | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 sighing | nmod:poss |
| 8 | sighing | sighing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 hush | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 call | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 call | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 whippowil | det |
| 12 | whippowil | whippowil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 call | nsubj |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 call | nmod:poss |
| 14 | call | call | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 hush | parataxis |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 flying | punct |
| 16 | Through | through | SCONJ | _ | 23 flying | mark |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 mists | det |
| 18 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 lit | compound |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 moon | punct |
| 20 | lit | lit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 mists | amod |
| 21 | mists | mist | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 flying | nsubj |
| 22 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 flying | aux |
| 23 | flying | fly | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 hush | advcl |
| 24 | dusky | dusky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 shadows | amod |
| 25 | shadows | shadow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 flying | obj |
| 26 | silent | silent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 flying | xcomp |
| 27 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 23 flying | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 hush | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hush | present | Hark | waters's sighing | the waters nsubj | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent sighing=Patient | |||
| 2 | call | the whippowil | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | lit | participle | moon compound | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | fly | present · progressive | the lit mists | dusky shadows | silent property | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Agent shadow=Theme all=Destination |
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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