Legends of the Northwest, The Game of Ball. [2], sentence 13
[9] And waving the beautiful prize anon, The dusky warriors cheer them on.
Who acts: dusky warriors · What happens: wave, cheer on · To what, where: beautiful prize anon, maidens, 9
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 (dusky warriors), 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 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 2 9 | punct |
| 2 | 9 | 9 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
| 3 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 2 9 | punct |
| 4 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 waving | cc |
| 5 | waving | wave | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 9 | conj |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 anon | det |
| 7 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 anon | amod |
| 8 | prize | prize | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 anon | compound |
| 9 | anon | anon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 waving | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 cheer | punct |
| 11 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 warriors | det |
| 12 | dusky | dusky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 warriors | amod |
| 13 | warriors | warrior | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 cheer | nsubj |
| 14 | cheer | cheer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 9 | conj |
| 15 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 cheer | obj |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 cheer | compound:prt |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 9 | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wave | gerund | the beautiful prize anon | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anon=Patient | |||||
| 2 | cheer on | present | the dusky warriors | maidens = maiden | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus they=Experiencer |
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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