Legends of the Northwest, The Legend., sentence 30
Swift and silent in the gloaming on the waste of waters blue, Speeding downward to the foaming, shot Wanâta's birch canoe, In it stood Anpétu-sâpa--in her arms her sleeping child; Like a wailing Norse-land _drapa_ [c] rose her death-song weird and wild:
Who acts: fat, c, Sâpa · What happens: speed, shoot, stand, wail, rise, sing · To what, where: foaming, birch canoe, Anpétu sâpa, death song
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, c, Sâpa), 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 | Swift | swift | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 shot | compound |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 silent | cc |
| 3 | silent | silent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Swift | conj |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 gloaming | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 gloaming | det |
| 6 | gloaming | gloaming | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 silent | obl |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 waste | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 waste | det |
| 9 | waste | waste | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 gloaming | nmod |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 waters | case |
| 11 | waters | water | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 waste | nmod |
| 12 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 waters | amod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 Speeding | punct |
| 14 | Speeding | speed | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 1 Swift | conj |
| 15 | downward | downward | ADV | _ | 14 Speeding | advmod |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 foaming | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 foaming | det |
| 18 | foaming | foaming | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 Speeding | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Swift | punct |
| 20 | shot | shoot | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 21 | Wanâta | Wanâta | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 canoe | nmod:poss |
| 22 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 21 Wanâta | case |
| 23 | birch | birch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 canoe | compound |
| 24 | canoe | canoe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 shot | obj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 stood | punct |
| 26 | In | in | SCONJ | _ | 28 stood | mark |
| 27 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 stood | nsubj |
| 28 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 shot | conj |
| 29 | Anpétu | Anpétu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 sâpa | compound |
| 30 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 29 Anpétu | punct |
| 31 | sâpa | sâpa | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 stood | obj |
| 32 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 38 child | punct |
| 33 | in | in | ADP | _ | 35 arms | case |
| 34 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 arms | nmod:poss |
| 35 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 child | obl |
| 36 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 child | nmod:poss |
| 37 | sleeping | sleeping | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 child | amod |
| 38 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 stood | obl |
| 39 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 45 land | punct |
| 40 | Like | like | ADP | _ | 45 land | case |
| 41 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 45 land | det |
| 42 | wailing | wail | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 45 land | amod |
| 43 | Norse | norse | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 45 land | amod |
| 44 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 43 Norse | punct |
| 45 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 stood | obl |
| 46 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 47 drapa | punct |
| 47 | drapa | drapa | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 stood | parataxis |
| 48 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 52 rose | punct |
| 49 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 50 c | punct |
| 50 | c | c | NOUN | Number=Sing | 52 rose | nsubj |
| 51 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 50 c | punct |
| 52 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 stood | conj |
| 53 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 56 song | nmod:poss |
| 54 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 56 song | compound |
| 55 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 54 death | punct |
| 56 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 52 rose | obj |
| 57 | weird | weird | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 52 rose | conj |
| 58 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 59 wild | cc |
| 59 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 57 weird | conj |
| 60 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 20 shot | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speed | gerund | the foaming | downward property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to foaming=Destination | ||||
| 2 | shoot | past | Wanâta's birch canoe | Swift compound | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent canoe=Theme | ||||
| 3 | stand | past | fat | Anpétu sâpa | like a wailing Norse land; Sâpa's sleeping child in Sâpa's arms obl; drapa parataxis | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sâpa=Stimulus | |||
| 4 | wail | gerund | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | rise | past | c | Sâpa's death song | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location song=Theme | ||||
| 6 | sing | Sâpa | nom song «communication intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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