Legends of the Northwest, The Game of Ball. [2], sentence 15
At last It leaps the line at a single bound From the fair Wiwâstè's sturdy stroke, Like a fawn that flies from the baying hound.
Who acts: ball, fawn, fair Wiwâstè · What happens: leap, fly, bay, stroke · To what, where: line, last
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 (ball, fawn, fair Wiwâstè), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 last | case |
| 2 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 leaps | obl |
| 3 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 leaps | nsubj |
| 4 | leaps | leap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 line | det |
| 6 | line | line | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 leaps | obj |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 bound | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 bound | det |
| 9 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 bound | amod |
| 10 | bound | bound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 leaps | obl |
| 11 | From | from | ADP | _ | 17 stroke | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Wiwâstè | det |
| 13 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 Wiwâstè | amod |
| 14 | Wiwâstè | Wiwâstè | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 stroke | nmod:poss |
| 15 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 14 Wiwâstè | case |
| 16 | sturdy | sturdy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 stroke | amod |
| 17 | stroke | stroke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 leaps | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 fawn | punct |
| 19 | Like | like | ADP | _ | 21 fawn | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 fawn | det |
| 21 | fawn | fawn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 stroke | appos |
| 22 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 flies | nsubj |
| 23 | flies | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 fawn | acl:relcl |
| 24 | from | from | ADP | _ | 27 hound | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 hound | det |
| 26 | baying | bay | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 27 hound | amod |
| 27 | hound | hound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 flies | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 leaps | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leap | present | ball | the line | last | at a single bound; from the fair Wiwâstè's sturdy stroke | vn run-51.3.2-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location line=Theme | ||
| 2 | fly | present | a fawn | from the baying hound | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from hound=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | bay | gerund | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | stroke | the fair Wiwâstè | nom stroke «act 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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