Legends of the Northwest, The Legend., sentence 46
Long they search the sullen river--searched for leagues along the shore, Bark or babe or mother never saw the sad Dakotas more; But at night or misty morning oft the hunters heard her song, Oft the maidens heard her warning in their mellow mother-tongue.
Who acts: Falls, Bark, oft hunters, maidens, hunter · What happens: search, not see, hear, sing, warn · To what, where: sullen river, shore, song, warning, mellow mother tongue
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 (Falls, Bark, oft hunters, maidens), 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 | Long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 search | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 search | nsubj |
| 3 | search | search | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 river | det |
| 5 | sullen | sullen | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 river | amod |
| 6 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 search | obj |
| 7 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 8 searched | punct |
| 8 | searched | search | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 river | acl |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 leagues | case |
| 10 | leagues | league | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 searched | obl |
| 11 | along | along | ADP | _ | 13 shore | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 shore | det |
| 13 | shore | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 searched | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 Bark | punct |
| 15 | Bark | bark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 saw | nsubj |
| 16 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 17 babe | cc |
| 17 | babe | babe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 Bark | conj |
| 18 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 19 mother | cc |
| 19 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 Bark | conj |
| 20 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 21 saw | advmod |
| 21 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 shore | acl:relcl |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 Dakotas | det |
| 23 | sad | sad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 Dakotas | amod |
| 24 | Dakotas | dakota | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 more | nsubj |
| 25 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 21 saw | advmod |
| 26 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 36 heard | punct |
| 27 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 36 heard | cc |
| 28 | at | at | ADP | _ | 29 night | case |
| 29 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 heard | obl |
| 30 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 32 morning | cc |
| 31 | misty | misty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 morning | amod |
| 32 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 night | conj |
| 33 | oft | oft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 hunters | amod |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 hunters | det |
| 35 | hunters | hunter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 heard | nsubj |
| 36 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 search | parataxis |
| 37 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 song | nmod:poss |
| 38 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 heard | obj |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 Oft | punct |
| 40 | Oft | Oft | PROPN | Number=Sing | 38 song | appos |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 maidens | det |
| 42 | maidens | maiden | NOUN | Number=Plur | 43 heard | nsubj |
| 43 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 heard | parataxis |
| 44 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 45 warning | nmod:poss |
| 45 | warning | warning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 heard | obj |
| 46 | in | in | ADP | _ | 51 tongue | case |
| 47 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 51 tongue | nmod:poss |
| 48 | mellow | mellow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 51 tongue | amod |
| 49 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 51 tongue | compound |
| 50 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 49 mother | punct |
| 51 | tongue | tongue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 heard | obl |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 search | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | search | present | Falls | the sullen river | long property | vn search-35.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent river=Location | |||
| 2 | search | participle | the sullen river not said here | the shore | for leagues | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.theme NP.location»: agent=Agent for league=Theme along shore=Location | |||
| 3 | not see | past | Bark or babe or mother | the shore not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer shore=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | hear | past | the oft hunters | hunter's song | night | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer song=Stimulus | |||
| 5 | hear | past | the maidens | hunter's warning | Falls's mellow mother tongue | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer warning=Stimulus | |||
| 6 | sing | hunter | nom song «communication intransitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 7 | warn | hunter | nom warning «communication transitive»: 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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