Legends of the Northwest, The Game of Ball. [2], sentence 17
Wakâwa, the chief, and the loud acclaim Announced the end of the well-fought game, And the fair Wiwâstè was victor crowned.
Who acts: loud acclaim · What happens: announce, fight, be, crown · To what, where: end, Wiwâstè victor, chief
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 (loud acclaim), 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 | Wakâwa | Wakâwa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 chief | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 chief | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 chief | det |
| 4 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 Announced | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 Announced | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 acclaim | det |
| 8 | loud | loud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 acclaim | amod |
| 9 | acclaim | acclaim | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 Announced | nsubj |
| 10 | Announced | announce | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 chief | conj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 end | det |
| 12 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 Announced | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 game | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 game | det |
| 15 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 17 fought | advmod |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 well | punct |
| 17 | fought | fight | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 game | amod |
| 18 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 end | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 victor | punct |
| 20 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 victor | cc |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 Wiwâstè | det |
| 22 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 Wiwâstè | amod |
| 23 | Wiwâstè | Wiwâstè | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 victor | compound |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 victor | cop |
| 25 | victor | victor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 chief | conj |
| 26 | crowned | crown | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 victor | acl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 chief | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | announce speech: other | past | the loud acclaim | the end of the fought game | vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent end=Theme | ||||
| 2 | fight | participle | well property | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a | past | Wiwâstè victor | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | crown | participle | Wiwâstè victor not said here | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=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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