Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 2, sentence 50
Sprang the Panther from the thicket-- Sprang and broke the chain of silver!
What happens: spring, break · To what, where: Panther, thicket, chain
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 | Sprang | spring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Panther | det |
| 3 | Panther | panther | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Sprang | obj |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 thicket | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 thicket | det |
| 6 | thicket | thicket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Sprang | obl |
| 7 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 8 Sprang | punct |
| 8 | Sprang | Sprang | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 thicket | appos |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 broke | cc |
| 10 | broke | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Sprang | conj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 chain | det |
| 12 | chain | chain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 broke | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 silver | case |
| 14 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 chain | nmod |
| 15 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Sprang | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spring | past | the Panther | the thicket | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location panther=Theme | ||||
| 2 | break | past | the chain of silver | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer chain=Patient |
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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