Legends of the Northwest, The Legend of the Falls., sentence 8
Slumber wraps the silent city, and the droning mills are dumb; One lone whippowil's shrill ditty calls her mate that ne'er will come.
Who acts: Slumber, droning mills, shrill ditty, ne'er · What happens: wrap, drone, be, call, come · To what, where: silent city, mate · 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 (Slumber, droning mills, shrill ditty, ne'er), 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 | Slumber | slumber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 wraps | nsubj |
| 2 | wraps | wrap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 city | det |
| 4 | silent | silent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 city | amod |
| 5 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 wraps | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 dumb | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 dumb | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 mills | det |
| 9 | droning | drone | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 mills | amod |
| 10 | mills | mill | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 dumb | nsubj |
| 11 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 dumb | cop |
| 12 | dumb | dumb | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 wraps | conj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 calls | punct |
| 14 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 whippowil | nummod |
| 15 | lone | lone | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 whippowil | amod |
| 16 | whippowil | whippowil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 ditty | nmod:poss |
| 17 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 16 whippowil | case |
| 18 | shrill | shrill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 ditty | amod |
| 19 | ditty | ditty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 calls | nsubj |
| 20 | calls | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 wraps | conj |
| 21 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 mate | nmod:poss |
| 22 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 calls | obj |
| 23 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 26 come | mark |
| 24 | ne'er | ne'er | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 come | nsubj |
| 25 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 come | aux |
| 26 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 calls | xcomp |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 wraps | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wrap | present | Slumber | the silent city | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent city=Theme | ||||
| 2 | drone | gerund | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | is | present | the droning mills | dumb property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | call | present | One lone whippowil's shrill ditty | ditty's mate | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | come | future | ne'er | vn escape-51.1-1 «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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