Legends of the Northwest, The Game of Ball. [2], sentence 16
Wild were the shouts, and they rolled and broke On the beetling bluffs and the hills profound, An echoing, jubilant sea of sound.
Who acts: limits · What happens: be, shout, roll, break, bluff · To what, where: beetling, hills profound · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (limits), 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 | Wild | Wild | PROPN | _ | 4 shouts | flat |
| 2 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 shouts | ccomp |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 shouts | det |
| 4 | shouts | shout | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 rolled | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 rolled | cc |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 rolled | nsubj |
| 8 | rolled | roll | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 shouts | ccomp |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 broke | cc |
| 10 | broke | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 rolled | conj |
| 11 | On | on | ADP | _ | 13 beetling | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 beetling | det |
| 13 | beetling | beetling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 broke | obl |
| 14 | bluffs | bluff | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 shouts | conj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 profound | cc |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 profound | det |
| 17 | hills | hill | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 profound | compound |
| 18 | profound | profound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 bluffs | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 echoing | punct |
| 20 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 echoing | det |
| 21 | echoing | echoing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 profound | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 sea | punct |
| 23 | jubilant | jubilant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 sea | amod |
| 24 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 profound | conj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 sound | case |
| 26 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 sea | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 shouts | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | shout speech: express | present | Wild flat | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | roll | past | limits = limit | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | break | past | limits = limit not said here | the beetling | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on beetling=Location | ||||
| 5 | bluff | present | the hills profound and a echoing and jubilant sea of sound | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent profound=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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