Legends of the Northwest, The Legend., sentence 6
Hunter, swift was he and cunning, caught the beaver, slew the bear, Overtook the roebuck running, dragged the panther from his lair.
Who acts: Hunter swift, cunning, roebuck · What happens: be, catch, slay, run, drag · To what, where: cunning, beaver, bear, panther, lair
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 (Hunter swift, cunning, roebuck), 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 | Hunter | Hunter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 swift | compound |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Hunter | punct |
| 3 | swift | swift | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 cunning | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 cunning | cop |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 cunning | nsubj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 cunning | cc |
| 7 | cunning | cunning | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 caught | punct |
| 9 | caught | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 cunning | acl:relcl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 beaver | det |
| 11 | beaver | beaver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 caught | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 slew | punct |
| 13 | slew | slay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 caught | conj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 bear | det |
| 15 | bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 slew | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 Overtook | punct |
| 17 | Overtook | Overtook | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 cunning | appos |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 roebuck | det |
| 19 | roebuck | roebuck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 Overtook | appos |
| 20 | running | run | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 19 roebuck | acl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 dragged | punct |
| 22 | dragged | drag | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 cunning | conj |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 panther | det |
| 24 | panther | panther | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 dragged | obj |
| 25 | from | from | ADP | _ | 27 lair | case |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 lair | nmod:poss |
| 27 | lair | lair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 dragged | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 cunning | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Hunter swift | cunning | Wanâta nsubj; Overtook appos | tree rules | |||
| 2 | catch | past | cunning not said here | the beaver | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beaver=Theme | ||||
| 3 | slay | past | cunning not said here | the bear | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bear=Patient | ||||
| 4 | run | gerund | the roebuck not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | drag | past | Hunter swift not said here | the panther | Wanâta's lair | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent panther=Theme from lair=Initial_Location |
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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