Legends of the Northwest, The Mississippi., sentence 1

Onward rolls the Royal River, proudly sweeping to the sea, Dark and deep and grand, forever wrapt in myth and mystery.

What happens: roll, sweep, wrapt · To what, where: Royal River, sea, myth

This is a sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Mississippi.. 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	Onward	onward	ADV	_	2 rolls	advmod
2	rolls	roll	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 River	det
4	Royal	Royal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 River	amod
5	River	River	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 rolls	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 sweeping	punct
7	proudly	proudly	ADV	_	8 sweeping	advmod
8	sweeping	sweep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 rolls	advcl
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 sea	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 sea	det
11	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sweeping	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 Dark	punct
13	Dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 sweeping	parataxis
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 deep	cc
15	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 Dark	conj
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 grand	cc
17	grand	grand	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 Dark	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 wrapt	punct
19	forever	forever	ADV	_	20 wrapt	advmod
20	wrapt	wrapt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 rolls	conj
21	in	in	ADP	_	22 myth	case
22	myth	myth	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 wrapt	obl
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 mystery	cc
24	mystery	mystery	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 myth	conj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 rolls	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	roll	present	the Royal River		onward property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent river=Agent
2	sweep	gerund		the sea	proudly property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to sea=Destination
3	wrapt	present		myth and mystery	forever property	tree rules

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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🌲 Legends of the Northwest, The Mississippi., sentence 1

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends of the Northwest, The Mississippi., sentence 1