Legends of the Northwest, The Legend of the Falls., sentence 20
Sad she seems, her tresses raven on her tawny shoulders rest;
Who acts: whippowil, tresses raven · What happens: seem, rest · To what, where: tresses raven, tawny shoulders
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 (whippowil, tresses raven), 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 | Sad | sad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 seems | amod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 seems | nsubj |
| 3 | seems | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 raven | punct |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 raven | nmod:poss |
| 6 | tresses | tress | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 raven | compound |
| 7 | raven | raven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 seems | xcomp |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 shoulders | case |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 shoulders | nmod:poss |
| 10 | tawny | tawny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 shoulders | amod |
| 11 | shoulders | shoulder | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 rest | obl |
| 12 | rest | rest | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 raven | acl:relcl |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 3 seems | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seem | present | whippowil | whippowil's tresses raven | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | rest | present | whippowil's tresses raven not said here | whippowil's tawny shoulders | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on shoulder=Location |
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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