Legends of the Northwest, The Game of Ball. [2], sentence 20
And the cheat--behold her! for there she stands With the prize that is mine in her treacherous hands.
Who acts: cheat, that · What happens: stand, be · To what, where: mine, treacherous hands
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 (cheat, that), 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 | _ | 11 stands | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 cheat | det |
| 3 | cheat | cheat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 stands | nsubj |
| 4 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 6 her | punct |
| 5 | behold | behold | INTJ | _ | 6 her | discourse |
| 6 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 cheat | appos |
| 7 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 6 her | punct |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 there | case |
| 9 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 cheat | nmod |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 stands | nsubj |
| 11 | stands | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | With | with | ADP | _ | 14 prize | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 prize | det |
| 14 | prize | prize | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 stands | obl |
| 15 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 mine | nsubj |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 mine | cop |
| 17 | mine | my | PRON | Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 prize | nmod |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 hands | case |
| 19 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 hands | nmod:poss |
| 20 | treacherous | treacherous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 hands | amod |
| 21 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 mine | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 stands | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | present | the cheat | with the prize | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | that | mine | Wiwâstè's treacherous hands | tree rules |
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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