Legends of the Northwest, The Game of Ball. [2], sentence 14
And often the limits are almost passed, As the swift ball flies and returns.
Who acts: swift ball · What happens: pass, fly, return · To what, where: limits
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 (swift ball), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 passed | cc |
| 2 | often | often | ADV | _ | 7 passed | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 limits | det |
| 4 | limits | limit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 passed | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 passed | aux:pass |
| 6 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 7 passed | advmod |
| 7 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 flies | punct |
| 9 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 13 flies | mark |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 ball | det |
| 11 | swift | swift | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 ball | compound |
| 12 | ball | ball | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 flies | nsubj |
| 13 | flies | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 passed | parataxis |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 returns | cc |
| 15 | returns | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 flies | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 passed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass | present · passive | the limits | almost, often property | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: subject=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | fly | present | the swift ball | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | return | present | the swift ball not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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