Legends of the Northwest, The Legend of the Falls., sentence 22
Hark!--she chants the solemn story,--sings the legend sad and old, And the river wrapt in glory listens while the tale is told.
Who acts: Hark, river · What happens: chant, sing, wrapt, listen, tell · To what, where: solemn story, legend, glory, tale · 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, river), 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 | 5 chants | nsubj |
| 2 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Hark | punct |
| 3 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 5 chants | punct |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 chants | nsubj |
| 5 | chants | chant | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 story | det |
| 7 | solemn | solemn | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 story | amod |
| 8 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 chants | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 sings | punct |
| 10 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 11 sings | punct |
| 11 | sings | sing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 chants | conj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 legend | det |
| 13 | legend | legend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 sings | obj |
| 14 | sad | sad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 sings | xcomp |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 old | cc |
| 16 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 sad | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 wrapt | punct |
| 18 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 wrapt | cc |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 river | det |
| 20 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 wrapt | nsubj |
| 21 | wrapt | wrapt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 listens | advcl |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 glory | case |
| 23 | glory | glory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 wrapt | obl |
| 24 | listens | listen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 chants | conj |
| 25 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 29 told | mark |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 tale | det |
| 27 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 told | nsubj:pass |
| 28 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 told | aux:pass |
| 29 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 listens | advcl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 chants | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | chant | present | Hark | the solemn story | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent story=Topic | ||||
| 2 | sing speech: express | present | Hark not said here | the legend | sad property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location legend=Theme | |||
| 3 | wrapt | present | the river | glory | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | listen | present | Hark not said here | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | tell speech: assert | present · passive | the tale | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
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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