Legends of the Northwest, The Legend of the Falls., sentence 7
On the Spirit-Island [a] sitting under midnight's misty moon, Lo I see the spirits flitting o'er the waters one by one!
Who acts: I, spirits · What happens: sit, see, flit · To what, where: misty moon, spirits, one, Spirit Island
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 (I, spirits), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 5 Island | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Island | det |
| 3 | Spirit | Spirit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Island | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 Spirit | punct |
| 5 | Island | Island | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 8 ] | punct |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 ] | det |
| 8 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 5 Island | punct |
| 9 | sitting | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 ] | acl |
| 10 | under | under | ADP | _ | 14 moon | case |
| 11 | midnight | midnight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 moon | nmod:poss |
| 12 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 11 midnight | case |
| 13 | misty | misty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 moon | amod |
| 14 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sitting | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 see | punct |
| 16 | Lo | lo | INTJ | _ | 18 see | discourse |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 see | nsubj |
| 18 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 sitting | advcl |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 spirits | det |
| 20 | spirits | spirit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 see | obj |
| 21 | flitting | flit | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 20 spirits | acl |
| 22 | o'er | o'er | ADP | _ | 24 waters | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 waters | det |
| 24 | waters | water | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 flitting | obl |
| 25 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 21 flitting | obl |
| 26 | by | by | ADP | _ | 27 one | case |
| 27 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 25 one | nmod |
| 28 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 Island | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | gerund | midnight's misty moon | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under moon=Location | |||||
| 2 | see | present | I | the spirits | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer spirit=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | flit | gerund | the spirits not said here | one by one | o'er the waters | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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