Legends of the Northwest, The Mississippi., sentence 10
[76] cried the warrior greeting from afar the cataract's roar; "Ha-ha!" rolled the answer, beating down the rock-ribbed leagues of shore.
Who acts: 76, ha, cataract · What happens: cry, roll, beat down, rib, roar · To what, where: warrior greeting, afar, answer, ribbed leagues
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: who acts (76, ha, cataract), 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 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 4 cried | punct |
| 2 | 76 | 76 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 cried | nsubj |
| 3 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 2 76 | punct |
| 4 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 greeting | det |
| 6 | warrior | warrior | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 greeting | compound |
| 7 | greeting | greeting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 cried | obj |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 afar | case |
| 9 | afar | afar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 greeting | nmod |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 cataract | det |
| 11 | cataract | cataract | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 roar | nmod:poss |
| 12 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 11 cataract | case |
| 13 | roar | roar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 cried | obj |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 rolled | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 ha | punct |
| 16 | Ha | ha | INTJ | _ | 18 ha | discourse |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 ha | punct |
| 18 | ha | ha | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 rolled | nsubj |
| 19 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 18 ha | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 ha | punct |
| 21 | rolled | roll | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 cried | parataxis |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 answer | det |
| 23 | answer | answer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 rolled | obj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 beating | punct |
| 25 | beating | beat | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 rolled | advcl |
| 26 | down | down | ADP | _ | 31 leagues | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 leagues | det |
| 28 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 ribbed | compound |
| 29 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 28 rock | punct |
| 30 | ribbed | rib | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 31 leagues | amod |
| 31 | leagues | league | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 beating | obl |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 shore | case |
| 33 | shore | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 leagues | nmod |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express | past | 76 | the warrior greeting | afar | the cataract's roar obj | tree rules | ||
| 2 | roll | past | ha | the answer | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent answer=Agent | ||||
| 3 | beat down | gerund | ha not said here | the ribbed leagues of shore | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location league=Theme | ||||
| 4 | rib | participle | rock compound | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | roar | the cataract | nom roar «event intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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