Legends of the Northwest, The Legend., sentence 29
Then above the leafless prairie leaped the fat faced, laughing moon, And the stars--the spirits fairy--walked the welkin one by one.
Who acts: fat, stars · What happens: leap, face, laugh, walk · To what, where: leafless prairie, moon, welkin
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 (fat, stars), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 leaped | advmod |
| 2 | above | above | ADP | _ | 5 prairie | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 prairie | det |
| 4 | leafless | leafless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 prairie | amod |
| 5 | prairie | prairie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 leaped | obl |
| 6 | leaped | leap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 fat | det |
| 8 | fat | fat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 faced | nsubj |
| 9 | faced | face | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 leaped | ccomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 laughing | punct |
| 11 | laughing | laugh | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 faced | advcl |
| 12 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 laughing | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 walked | punct |
| 14 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 walked | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 stars | det |
| 16 | stars | star | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 walked | nsubj |
| 17 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 20 fairy | punct |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 fairy | det |
| 19 | spirits | spirit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 fairy | compound |
| 20 | fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 stars | conj |
| 21 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 16 stars | punct |
| 22 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 leaped | conj |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 welkin | det |
| 24 | welkin | welkin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 walked | obj |
| 25 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 22 walked | obl |
| 26 | by | by | ADP | _ | 27 one | case |
| 27 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 25 one | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 leaped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leap | past | the leafless prairie | then | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | face | past | the fat | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | laugh | gerund | the fat not said here | moon | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent moon=Theme | ||||
| 4 | walk | past | the stars and the spirits fairy | the welkin | one by one obl | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme welkin=Trajectory |
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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