Legends of the Northwest, The Mississippi., sentence 3
Still like some huge monster winding downward through the prairie plains, Seeking rest but never finding, till the tropic gulf he gains.
Who acts: you, huge monster, monster · What happens: like, wind, seek, not find, gain · To what, where: huge monster, prairie plains, rest, tropic gulf
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, huge monster, monster), 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 like | advmod |
| 2 | like | like | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 5 monster | det |
| 4 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 monster | amod |
| 5 | monster | monster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 like | obj |
| 6 | winding | wind | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 monster | acl |
| 7 | downward | downward | ADV | _ | 6 winding | advmod |
| 8 | through | through | ADP | _ | 11 plains | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 plains | det |
| 10 | prairie | prairie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 plains | compound |
| 11 | plains | plain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 winding | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 Seeking | punct |
| 13 | Seeking | seek | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 winding | conj |
| 14 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 Seeking | obj |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 finding | cc |
| 16 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 17 finding | advmod |
| 17 | finding | find | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 winding | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 gulf | punct |
| 19 | till | till | ADP | _ | 22 gulf | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 gulf | det |
| 21 | tropic | tropic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 gulf | amod |
| 22 | gulf | gulf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 finding | ccomp |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 gains | nsubj |
| 24 | gains | gain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 gulf | acl:relcl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 like | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | like | imperative | you not said here | some huge monster | still | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot monster=Theme | |||
| 2 | wind | gerund | some huge monster not said here | the prairie plains | downward property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme through plain=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | seek | gerund | some huge monster not said here | rest | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rest=Theme | ||||
| 4 | not find | gerund | some huge monster not said here | the tropic gulf ccomp | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | gain | present | monster | the tropic gulf not said here | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gulf=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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