Legends of the Northwest, The Mississippi., sentence 5
Where a thousand foaming fountains singing seek the plains below.
Who acts: thousand foaming fountains · What happens: foam, sing, seek · To what, where: plains
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 (thousand foaming fountains), 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 | Where | where | ADV | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 thousand | det |
| 3 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 fountains | nummod |
| 4 | foaming | foam | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 fountains | amod |
| 5 | fountains | fountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Where | nsubj |
| 6 | singing | sing | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 fountains | acl |
| 7 | seek | seek | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 singing | xcomp |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 plains | det |
| 9 | plains | plain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 seek | obj |
| 10 | below | below | ADV | _ | 9 plains | advmod |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Where | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | foam | gerund | vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | sing speech: express | gerund | thousand foaming fountains not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | seek | infinitive | thousand foaming fountains not said here | the plains | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plain=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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