Legends of the Northwest, The Mississippi., sentence 11
Now, alas, the bow and quiver and the dusky braves have fled, And the sullen, shackled river drives the droning mills instead.
Who acts: sullen shackled river · What happens: flee, shackle, drive, drone · To what, where: alas, droning mills
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 (sullen shackled river), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 fled | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Now | punct |
| 3 | alas | ala | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 fled | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 bow | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 bow | det |
| 6 | bow | bow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 alas | appos |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 quiver | cc |
| 8 | quiver | quiver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 bow | conj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 braves | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 braves | det |
| 11 | dusky | dusky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 braves | amod |
| 12 | braves | brave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 alas | conj |
| 13 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 fled | aux |
| 14 | fled | flee | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 drives | punct |
| 16 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 drives | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 river | det |
| 18 | sullen | sullen | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 river | amod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 sullen | punct |
| 20 | shackled | shackle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 river | amod |
| 21 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 drives | nsubj |
| 22 | drives | drive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 fled | conj |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 mills | det |
| 24 | droning | drone | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 25 mills | amod |
| 25 | mills | mill | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 drives | obj |
| 26 | instead | instead | ADV | _ | 22 drives | advmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 fled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | flee | present · perfect · passive | alas and the dusky braves | now | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | shackle | participle | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 3 | drive | present | the sullen shackled river | the droning mills | instead property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme mill=Trajectory | |||
| 4 | drone | gerund | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=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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