Legends of the Northwest, The Mississippi., sentence 6
Fields of corn and feet of cities lo the mighty river laves, Where the Saxon sings his ditties o'er the swarthy warriors' graves.
Who acts: Fields, mighty river, Saxon · What happens: lo, lave, sing · To what, where: ditties
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 (Fields, mighty river, Saxon), 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 | Fields | field | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 lo | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 3 corn | case |
| 3 | corn | corn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Fields | nmod |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 feet | cc |
| 5 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 corn | conj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 cities | case |
| 7 | cities | city | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 feet | nmod |
| 8 | lo | lo | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 river | det |
| 10 | mighty | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 river | amod |
| 11 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 laves | nsubj |
| 12 | laves | lave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 lo | ccomp |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 sings | punct |
| 14 | Where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 17 sings | advmod |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Saxon | det |
| 16 | Saxon | Saxon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 sings | nsubj |
| 17 | sings | sing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 laves | conj |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 ditties | nmod:poss |
| 19 | ditties | ditty | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 sings | obj |
| 20 | o'er | o'er | ADP | _ | 25 graves | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 warriors | det |
| 22 | swarthy | swarthy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 warriors | amod |
| 23 | warriors | warrior | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 graves | nmod:poss |
| 24 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 23 warriors | case |
| 25 | graves | grave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 sings | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 lo | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lo | present | Fields of corn and feet of cities | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | lave | present | the mighty river | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | sing speech: express | present | the Saxon | Saxon's ditties | o'er the swarthy warriors's graves | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location ditty=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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