Legends of the Northwest, The Legend., sentence 2
Laughed at flood and fire and hunger, faced the fiercest winter storm.
Who acts: Laughed flood · What happens: laugh, face · To what, where: fiercest winter storm
This is a sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Legend.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Laughed flood), 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 | Laughed | laugh | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 flood | amod |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 3 flood | case |
| 3 | flood | flood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 faced | nsubj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 fire | cc |
| 5 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 flood | conj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 hunger | cc |
| 7 | hunger | hunger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 flood | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 flood | punct |
| 9 | faced | face | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 storm | det |
| 11 | fiercest | fierce | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 13 storm | amod |
| 12 | winter | winter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 storm | compound |
| 13 | storm | storm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 faced | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 faced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | laugh | participle | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | face | past | Laughed flood and fire and hunger | the fiercest winter storm | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme storm=Destination |
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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