Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 3, sentence 99
When the lights appear, danger threatens, and the warriors shoot at, and often slay, the evil spirit, but it rises from the dead again.]
Who acts: lights, danger, warriors · What happens: appear, threaten, shoot, slay, rise · To what, where: evil spirit, dead
This is a sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lights, danger, warriors), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 4 appear | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 lights | det |
| 3 | lights | light | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 appear | nsubj |
| 4 | appear | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 threatens | advcl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 appear | punct |
| 6 | danger | danger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 threatens | nsubj |
| 7 | threatens | threaten | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 shoot | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 shoot | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 warriors | det |
| 11 | warriors | warrior | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 shoot | nsubj |
| 12 | shoot | shoot | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 threatens | conj |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 shoot | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 slay | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 slay | cc |
| 16 | often | often | ADV | _ | 17 slay | advmod |
| 17 | slay | slay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 threatens | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 spirit | punct |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 spirit | det |
| 20 | evil | evil | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 spirit | amod |
| 21 | spirit | spirit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 slay | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 rises | punct |
| 23 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 25 rises | cc |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 rises | nsubj |
| 25 | rises | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 threatens | conj |
| 26 | from | from | ADP | _ | 28 dead | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 dead | det |
| 28 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 rises | obl |
| 29 | again | again | ADV | _ | 25 rises | advmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 25 rises | punct |
| 31 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 25 rises | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | appear | present | the lights | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | threaten | present | danger | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | shoot | present | the warriors | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | slay | present | danger not said here | the evil spirit | often property | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||
| 5 | rise | present | danger | the dead | again | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from dead=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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