Legends of the Northwest, The Mississippi., sentence 22
I will sit and lowly listen at the phantom-haunted falls, Where thy waters foam and glisten o'er the rugged, rocky walls.
Who acts: I, waters · What happens: sit, listen, haunt, foam, glisten
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 (I, waters), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 sit | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 sit | aux |
| 3 | sit | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 listen | cc |
| 5 | lowly | lowly | ADV | _ | 6 listen | advmod |
| 6 | listen | listen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 sit | conj |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 falls | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 falls | det |
| 9 | phantom | phantom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 haunted | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 phantom | punct |
| 11 | haunted | haunt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 falls | amod |
| 12 | falls | fall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 listen | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 foam | punct |
| 14 | Where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 17 foam | advmod |
| 15 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 16 waters | nmod:poss |
| 16 | waters | water | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 foam | nsubj |
| 17 | foam | foam | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 falls | parataxis |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 glisten | cc |
| 19 | glisten | glisten | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 foam | conj |
| 20 | o'er | o'er | ADP | _ | 25 walls | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 walls | det |
| 22 | rugged | rugged | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 walls | amod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 rugged | punct |
| 24 | rocky | rocky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 walls | amod |
| 25 | walls | wall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 glisten | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sit | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | future | I | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | listen | infinitive | I not said here | at the haunted falls; lowly property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at fall=Theme | ||||
| 3 | haunt | participle | phantom compound | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | foam | present | thy waters | vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | glisten | present | thy waters not said here | o'er the rugged rocky walls | vn light_emission-43.1 «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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