Legends of the Northwest, The Mississippi., sentence 13
Swiftly sped the tawny runner o'er the pathless prairies then, Now the iron-reindeer sooner carries weal or woe to men.
What happens: speed, carry · To what, where: tawny runner, weal, men
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 | Swiftly | swiftly | ADV | _ | 2 sped | advmod |
| 2 | sped | speed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 runner | det |
| 4 | tawny | tawny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 runner | amod |
| 5 | runner | runner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 sped | obj |
| 6 | o'er | o'er | ADP | _ | 9 prairies | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 prairies | det |
| 8 | pathless | pathless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 prairies | amod |
| 9 | prairies | prairie | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 sped | obl |
| 10 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 sped | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 carries | punct |
| 12 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 18 carries | advmod |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 reindeer | det |
| 14 | iron | iron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 reindeer | compound |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 iron | punct |
| 16 | reindeer | reindeer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 sooner | obl:unmarked |
| 17 | sooner | soon | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 18 carries | advmod |
| 18 | carries | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 sped | conj |
| 19 | weal | weal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 carries | obj |
| 20 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 21 woe | cc |
| 21 | woe | woe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 weal | conj |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 men | case |
| 23 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 carries | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 sped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speed | past | the tawny runner | then | o'er the pathless prairies; swiftly property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent runner=Agent | |||
| 2 | carry | present | weal or woe | men | now | soon property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent weal=Theme to man=Destination |
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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