Legends of the Northwest, The Game of Ball. [2], sentence 1
Clear was the sky as a silver shield; The bright sun blazed on the frozen field.
Who acts: Clear · What happens: be, blaze, freeze · To what, where: sky, bright sun, frozen field
This is a sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Game of Ball. [2]. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Clear), 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 | Clear | Clear | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 sky | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 sky | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 sky | det |
| 4 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | as | as | ADP | _ | 8 shield | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 shield | det |
| 7 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 shield | compound |
| 8 | shield | shield | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sky | nmod |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 sun | punct |
| 10 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 sun | det |
| 11 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 sun | amod |
| 12 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sky | conj |
| 13 | blazed | blaze | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 sun | acl |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 field | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 field | det |
| 16 | frozen | freeze | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 field | amod |
| 17 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 blazed | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sky | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Clear | the sky and the bright sun | as a silver shield; the bright sun conj | tree rules | |||
| 2 | blaze | participle | the bright sun not said here | the frozen field | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on field=Location | ||||
| 3 | freeze | participle | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
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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