Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 2, sentence 9
Dare you swing above the billows,-- Swing like me above the billows?"
Who acts: you · What happens: swing · To what, where: Swing, billows
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: who acts (you), 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 | Dare | dare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 swing | compound |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 swing | nsubj |
| 3 | swing | swing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | above | above | ADP | _ | 6 billows | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 billows | det |
| 6 | billows | billow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 swing | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 swing | punct |
| 8 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 9 Swing | punct |
| 9 | Swing | swing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 swing | obl |
| 10 | like | like | ADP | _ | 11 me | case |
| 11 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 Swing | nmod |
| 12 | above | above | ADP | _ | 14 billows | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 billows | det |
| 14 | billows | billow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 Swing | nmod |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 swing | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 swing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | swing | present | you | Swing like me above the billows | the billows | Dare compound | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme above billow=Trajectory |
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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