Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 2, sentence 5
On the tall cliff by the sea-shore Red Fox made a swing.
What happens: make · To what, where: swing, tall cliff
This is a sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 4 cliff | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 cliff | det |
| 3 | tall | tall | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 cliff | amod |
| 4 | cliff | cliff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 made | obl |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 shore | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 shore | det |
| 7 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 shore | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 sea | punct |
| 9 | shore | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 cliff | nmod |
| 10 | Red | Red | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 shore | appos |
| 11 | Fox | Fox | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Red | flat |
| 12 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 swing | det |
| 14 | swing | swing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 made | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | a swing | the tall cliff by the sea shore | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset swing=Product |
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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