Legends of the Northwest, The Mississippi., sentence 12
Where the war whoop rose, and, after, women wailed their warriors slain, List the Saxon's silvery laughter, and his humming hives of gain.
Who acts: war whoop, women · What happens: rise, wail, list · To what, where: humming hives, warriors, silvery laughter
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 (war whoop, women), 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 | Where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 5 rose | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 whoop | det |
| 3 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 whoop | compound |
| 4 | whoop | whoop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 rose | nsubj |
| 5 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 rose | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 List | cc |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 and | punct |
| 9 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 12 wailed | mark |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 after | punct |
| 11 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 wailed | nsubj |
| 12 | wailed | wail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 List | advcl |
| 13 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 warriors | nmod:poss |
| 14 | warriors | warrior | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 wailed | obj |
| 15 | slain | slain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 wailed | xcomp |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 wailed | punct |
| 17 | List | list | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 rose | conj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Saxon | det |
| 19 | Saxon | Saxon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 laughter | nmod:poss |
| 20 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 19 Saxon | case |
| 21 | silvery | silvery | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 laughter | amod |
| 22 | laughter | laughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 List | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 hives | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 hives | cc |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 hives | nmod:poss |
| 26 | humming | humming | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 hives | compound |
| 27 | hives | hive | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 rose | obl |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 gain | case |
| 29 | gain | gain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 hives | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 rose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rise | past | the war whoop | whoop's humming hives of gain | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | wail | past | women | Women's warriors | slain property | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent warrior=Theme | |||
| 3 | list | infinitive | the war whoop not said here | the Saxon's silvery laughter | 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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