Legends of the Northwest, The Game of Ball. [2], sentence 25
Beloved was she by her princely father, Beloved was she by the young and old, By merry maidens and many a mother, And many a warrior bronzed and bold.
Who acts: Beloved, princely father · What happens: be, bronze · To what, where: many warrior
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 (Beloved, princely father), 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 | Beloved | Beloved | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 father | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 father | cop |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 father | nsubj |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 father | case |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 father | nmod:poss |
| 6 | princely | princely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 father | amod |
| 7 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 young | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 Beloved | punct |
| 9 | Beloved | Beloved | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 father | appos |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 young | cop |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 young | nsubj |
| 12 | by | by | ADP | _ | 14 young | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 young | det |
| 14 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 old | cc |
| 16 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 young | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 maidens | punct |
| 18 | By | by | ADP | _ | 20 maidens | case |
| 19 | merry | merry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 maidens | amod |
| 20 | maidens | maiden | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 young | parataxis |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 mother | cc |
| 22 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 mother | amod |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 mother | det |
| 24 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 maidens | conj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 warrior | punct |
| 26 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 warrior | cc |
| 27 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 warrior | amod |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 warrior | det |
| 29 | warrior | warrior | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 young | obl |
| 30 | bronzed | bronze | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 29 warrior | acl |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 bold | cc |
| 32 | bold | bold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 bronzed | conj |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 young | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Beloved | by Beloved's princely father | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | past | Beloved's princely father | a many warrior obl; Beloved nsubj; merry maidens and a many mother parataxis; young property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | be | Beloved's princely father not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | bronze | participle | a many warrior not said here | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: 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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