Legends of the Northwest, The Mississippi., sentence 16
Still forever and forever rolls the restless river on, Slumbering oft but ceasing never, while the circling centuries run.
Who acts: circling centuries · What happens: roll on, slumber, not cease, run · To what, where: restless river
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 (circling centuries), 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 | Still | still | ADV | _ | 2 forever | advmod |
| 2 | forever | forever | ADV | _ | 5 rolls | advmod |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 forever | cc |
| 4 | forever | forever | ADV | _ | 2 forever | conj |
| 5 | rolls | roll | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 river | det |
| 7 | restless | restless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 river | amod |
| 8 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 rolls | obj |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 rolls | compound:prt |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 Slumbering | punct |
| 11 | Slumbering | slumber | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 rolls | advcl |
| 12 | oft | oft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 Slumbering | xcomp |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 ceasing | cc |
| 14 | ceasing | cease | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 Slumbering | conj |
| 15 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 14 ceasing | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 run | punct |
| 17 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 21 run | mark |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 centuries | det |
| 19 | circling | circling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 centuries | compound |
| 20 | centuries | century | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 run | nsubj |
| 21 | run | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 Slumbering | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 rolls | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | roll on | present | the restless river | still | forever property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent river=Agent | |||
| 2 | slumber | gerund | oft property | vn snooze-40.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | not cease | gerund | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||||
| 4 | run | present | the circling centuries | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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