Legends of the Northwest, The Mississippi., sentence 19
See--he stands erect and lingers--stoic still, but loth to go-- Clutching in his tawny fingers feathered shaft and polished bow.
Who acts: you, moonlight · What happens: see, stand, linger, go, clutch, polish · To what, where: tawny fingers
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 (you, moonlight), 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 | See | see | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 4 stands | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 stands | nsubj |
| 4 | stands | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 See | parataxis |
| 5 | erect | erect | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 stands | xcomp |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 lingers | cc |
| 7 | lingers | linger | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 stands | conj |
| 8 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 9 stoic | punct |
| 9 | stoic | stoic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 lingers | xcomp |
| 10 | still | still | ADV | _ | 9 stoic | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 loth | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 loth | cc |
| 13 | loth | loth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 See | conj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 go | mark |
| 15 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 loth | xcomp |
| 16 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 17 Clutching | punct |
| 17 | Clutching | clutch | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 go | advcl |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 fingers | case |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 fingers | nmod:poss |
| 20 | tawny | tawny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 fingers | amod |
| 21 | fingers | finger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 Clutching | obl |
| 22 | feathered | feathered | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 shaft | amod |
| 23 | shaft | shaft | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 fingers | conj |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 bow | cc |
| 25 | polished | polish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 bow | amod |
| 26 | bow | bow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 fingers | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 See | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | imperative | you not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | stand | present | moonlight | erect property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | linger | present | moonlight not said here | stoic property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | go | to-infinitive | you not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | clutch | gerund | you not said here | moonlight's tawny fingers and feathered shaft and polished bow | vn hold-15.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | polish | participle | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: 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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