Legends of the Northwest, The Legend of the Falls., sentence 23
Would you hear the legend olden, hearken while I tell the tale-- Shorn, alas, of many a golden, weird Dakota chant and wail.
Who acts: you, I · What happens: hear, hearken, tell · To what, where: legend, 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 (you, I), 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 | Would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 hear | aux |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 hear | nsubj |
| 3 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 legend | det |
| 5 | legend | legend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 hear | obj |
| 6 | olden | olden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 hear | xcomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 hearken | punct |
| 8 | hearken | hearken | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 hear | conj |
| 9 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 11 tell | mark |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 tell | nsubj |
| 11 | tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 hearken | advcl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 tale | det |
| 13 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 tell | obj |
| 14 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 15 Shorn | punct |
| 15 | Shorn | shorn | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 tale | amod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 alas | punct |
| 17 | alas | ala | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 tale | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 many | punct |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 many | case |
| 20 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 tell | ccomp |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 chant | det |
| 22 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 chant | amod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 golden | punct |
| 24 | weird | weird | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 chant | amod |
| 25 | Dakota | Dakota | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 chant | compound |
| 26 | chant | chant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 many | advmod |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 wail | cc |
| 28 | wail | wail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 chant | conj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 hear | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | would | you | the legend | olden property | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer legend=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | hearken | infinitive | you not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | present | I | the tale and alas | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent tale=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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