Legends of the Northwest, The Game of Ball. [2], sentence 21
The fawn may fly, but the wolf is fleet; The fox creeps sly on Magâ's [10] retreat; And a woman's revenge--it is swift and sweet."
Who acts: fawn, wolf, fox, woman · What happens: fly, be, creep, revenge · To what, where: 10 retreat
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 (fawn, wolf, fox, woman), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 fawn | det |
| 2 | fawn | fawn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 fly | nsubj |
| 3 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 fly | aux |
| 4 | fly | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 fleet | punct |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 fleet | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 wolf | det |
| 8 | wolf | wolf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 fleet | nsubj |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 fleet | cop |
| 10 | fleet | fleet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 fly | conj |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 creeps | punct |
| 12 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 fox | det |
| 13 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 creeps | nsubj |
| 14 | creeps | creep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 fly | conj |
| 15 | sly | sly | ADV | _ | 14 creeps | advmod |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 22 retreat | case |
| 17 | Magâ | Magâ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 retreat | nmod:poss |
| 18 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 17 Magâ | case |
| 19 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 20 10 | punct |
| 20 | 10 | 10 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 22 retreat | nummod |
| 21 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 20 10 | punct |
| 22 | retreat | retreat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 creeps | obl |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 4 fly | punct |
| 24 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 revenge | cc |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 woman | det |
| 26 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 revenge | nmod:poss |
| 27 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 26 woman | case |
| 28 | revenge | revenge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 ; | conj |
| 29 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 32 swift | punct |
| 30 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 swift | nsubj |
| 31 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 swift | cop |
| 32 | swift | swift | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 fly | conj |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 sweet | cc |
| 34 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 swift | conj |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 fly | punct |
| 36 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 fly | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly | may | the fawn | a woman's revenge conj | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | present | the wolf | fleet property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | creep | present | the fox | Magâ's 10 retreat | sly property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on retreat=Trajectory | |||
| 4 | is | present | fox | swift property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | be | fox not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 6 | revenge | a woman | nom revenge «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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