Legends of the Northwest, The Legend., sentence 44
Swiftly down the turbid torrent, as she sung her song she flew; Like a swan upon the current, dancing rode the light canoe.
Who acts: torrent, turbid torrent · What happens: sing, fly, ride · To what, where: song, light canoe
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 (torrent, turbid torrent), 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 | Swiftly | swiftly | ADV | _ | 5 torrent | advmod |
| 2 | down | down | ADP | _ | 5 torrent | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 torrent | det |
| 4 | turbid | turbid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 torrent | amod |
| 5 | torrent | torrent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 rode | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 sung | punct |
| 7 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 9 sung | mark |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 sung | nsubj |
| 9 | sung | sing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 torrent | conj |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 song | nmod:poss |
| 11 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sung | obj |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 flew | nsubj |
| 13 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 song | acl:relcl |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 swan | punct |
| 15 | Like | like | ADP | _ | 17 swan | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 swan | det |
| 17 | swan | swan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sung | obl |
| 18 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 20 current | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 current | det |
| 20 | current | current | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 swan | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 dancing | punct |
| 22 | dancing | dancing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 current | conj |
| 23 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 canoe | det |
| 25 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 canoe | compound |
| 26 | canoe | canoe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 rode | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 23 rode | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sing speech: express | past | torrent | torrent's song | like a swan upon the current and dancing | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location song=Theme | |||
| 2 | fly | past | torrent | torrent's song not said here | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location song=Theme | ||||
| 3 | ride | past | the turbid torrent | the light canoe | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent canoe=Location | ||||
| 4 | sing | torrent | 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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