Legends of the Northwest, The Game of Ball. [2], sentence 27
Through the somber pines of the nor'land wold, When the winds of winter are keen and cold.
Who acts: winds · What happens: be, wind · To what, where: somber pines, winter
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 (winds), 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 | Through | through | ADP | _ | 4 pines | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 pines | det |
| 3 | somber | somber | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 pines | amod |
| 4 | pines | pine | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 wold | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 wold | det |
| 7 | nor'land | nor'land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 wold | compound |
| 8 | wold | wold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 pines | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 keen | punct |
| 10 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 16 keen | advmod |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 winds | det |
| 12 | winds | wind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 keen | nsubj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 winter | case |
| 14 | winter | winter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 winds | nmod |
| 15 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 keen | cop |
| 16 | keen | keen | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 pines | conj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 cold | cc |
| 18 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 keen | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 pines | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the winds of winter | keen property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | the winds of winter not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | wind | winter | nom wind «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient |
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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