Legends of the Northwest, The Mississippi., sentence 8
Where his wayward waters thundered, roaring o'er the rocky walls, Dusky hunters sat and wondered, listening to the spirits' calls. "
Who acts: wayward waters, Dusky hunters, spirits · What happens: thunder, roar, sit, wonder, listen, 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 (wayward waters, Dusky hunters, spirits), 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=Rel | 5 thundered | advmod |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 waters | nmod:poss |
| 3 | wayward | wayward | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 waters | amod |
| 4 | waters | water | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 thundered | nsubj |
| 5 | thundered | thunder | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 sat | advcl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 roaring | punct |
| 7 | roaring | roar | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 thundered | advcl |
| 8 | o'er | o'er | ADP | _ | 11 walls | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 walls | det |
| 10 | rocky | rocky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 walls | amod |
| 11 | walls | wall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 roaring | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 thundered | punct |
| 13 | Dusky | dusky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 hunters | amod |
| 14 | hunters | hunter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 sat | nsubj |
| 15 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 wondered | cc |
| 17 | wondered | wonder | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 sat | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 listening | punct |
| 19 | listening | listen | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 wondered | advcl |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 calls | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 spirits | det |
| 22 | spirits | spirit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 calls | nmod:poss |
| 23 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 22 spirits | case |
| 24 | calls | call | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 listening | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 sat | punct |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 sat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | thunder | past | Moses's wayward waters | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | roar | gerund | Moses's wayward waters not said here | o'er the rocky walls | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | sit | past | Dusky hunters | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | wonder speech: ask | past | Dusky hunters not said here | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | listen | gerund | Dusky hunters not said here | to the spirits's calls | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to call=Theme | ||||
| 6 | call | the spirits | nom call «communication transitive»: poss=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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