Legends of the Northwest, The Game of Ball. [2], sentence 19
I was stunned by a blow on my bended head, As I snatched the ball from slippery ground Not half a fling from Wiwâstè's bound.
Who acts: blow, I · What happens: stun, snatch · To what, where: I, ball, slippery ground
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 (blow, I), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 stunned | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 stunned | aux:pass |
| 3 | stunned | stun | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 6 blow | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 blow | det |
| 6 | blow | blow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stunned | obl |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 head | case |
| 8 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 head | nmod:poss |
| 9 | bended | bended | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 head | amod |
| 10 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 blow | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 snatched | punct |
| 12 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 14 snatched | mark |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 snatched | nsubj |
| 14 | snatched | snatch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 stunned | conj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 ball | det |
| 16 | ball | ball | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 snatched | obj |
| 17 | from | from | ADP | _ | 19 ground | case |
| 18 | slippery | slippery | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 ground | amod |
| 19 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 snatched | obl |
| 20 | Not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 half | advmod |
| 21 | half | half | DET | NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind | 23 fling | det:predet |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 fling | det |
| 23 | fling | fling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 snatched | parataxis |
| 24 | from | from | ADP | _ | 27 bound | case |
| 25 | Wiwâstè | Wiwâstè | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 bound | nmod:poss |
| 26 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 25 Wiwâstè | case |
| 27 | bound | bound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 fling | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 stunned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stun | past · passive | a blow on my bended head | I | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus subject=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | snatch | past | I | the ball | slippery ground | half fling from Wiwâstè's bound parataxis | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent ball=Theme from ground=Source |
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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