Legends of the Northwest, The Game of Ball. [2], sentence 23
Little they heeded the words she said, Little they cared for her haughty tread, For maidens and warriors and chieftain knew That her lips were false and her charge untrue.
Who acts: roar, fawn, words, maidens, lips · What happens: heed, say, care, know, be, charge · To what, where: Little, words, That · 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 (roar, fawn, words, maidens), 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 | Little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 heeded | obl:unmarked |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 heeded | nsubj |
| 3 | heeded | heed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 words | det |
| 5 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 cared | nsubj |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 said | nsubj |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 words | acl:relcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 Little | punct |
| 9 | Little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 cared | advcl |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 cared | nsubj |
| 11 | cared | care | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 heeded | parataxis |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 tread | case |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 tread | nmod:poss |
| 14 | haughty | haughty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 tread | amod |
| 15 | tread | tread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 cared | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 maidens | punct |
| 17 | For | for | ADP | _ | 18 maidens | case |
| 18 | maidens | maiden | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 knew | nsubj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 warriors | cc |
| 20 | warriors | warrior | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 maidens | conj |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 chieftain | cc |
| 22 | chieftain | chieftain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 maidens | conj |
| 23 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 cared | parataxis |
| 24 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 23 knew | obj |
| 25 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 lips | nmod:poss |
| 26 | lips | lip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 false | nsubj |
| 27 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 false | cop |
| 28 | false | false | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 knew | parataxis |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 charge | cc |
| 30 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 charge | nmod:poss |
| 31 | charge | charge | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 false | conj |
| 32 | untrue | untrue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 charge | xcomp |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 heeded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | heed | past | roar | Little | vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | fawn | the words not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent word=Topic | ||||
| 3 | care | past | the words | for fawn's haughty tread; roar nsubj | vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent for tread=Theme | ||||
| 4 | know | past | maidens and warriors and chieftain | That | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer that=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | is | past | fawn's lips | false property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | charge | infinitive | fawn's lips not said here | fawn nmod:poss; untrue property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 7 | tread | fawn | nom tread «act intransitive»: 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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