Legends of the Northwest, The Mississippi., sentence 2
Lo he laughs along the highlands, leaping o'er the granite walls: Lo he sleeps among the islands, where the loon her lover calls.
Who acts: he, loon · What happens: laugh, leap, sleep, call · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (he, loon), 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 | Lo | lo | INTJ | _ | 3 laughs | discourse |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 laughs | nsubj |
| 3 | laughs | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | along | along | ADP | _ | 6 highlands | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 highlands | det |
| 6 | highlands | highland | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 laughs | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 leaping | punct |
| 8 | leaping | leap | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 laughs | advcl |
| 9 | o'er | o'er | ADP | _ | 12 walls | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 walls | det |
| 11 | granite | granite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 walls | compound |
| 12 | walls | wall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 leaping | obl |
| 13 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 16 sleeps | punct |
| 14 | Lo | lo | INTJ | _ | 16 sleeps | discourse |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 sleeps | nsubj |
| 16 | sleeps | sleep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 laughs | conj |
| 17 | among | among | ADP | _ | 19 islands | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 islands | det |
| 19 | islands | island | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 sleeps | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 calls | punct |
| 21 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 26 calls | advmod |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 loon | det |
| 23 | loon | loon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 calls | nsubj |
| 24 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 lover | nmod:poss |
| 25 | lover | lover | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 calls | nsubj |
| 26 | calls | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 sleeps | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 laughs | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | laugh | present | he | along the highlands | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | leap | gerund | he not said here | o'er the granite walls | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | sleep | present | he | among the islands | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | call | present | the loon | loon's lover nsubj | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «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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