Legends of the Northwest, The Game of Ball. [2], sentence 30
Aye, brave and proud was the tall Red Cloud, A peerless son of a giant race, And the eyes of the panther were set in his face.
Who acts: tall Red Cloud · What happens: be, set · To what, where: eyes, face
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 (tall Red Cloud), 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 | Aye | aye | INTJ | _ | 3 brave | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 brave | punct |
| 3 | brave | brave | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 proud | cc |
| 5 | proud | proud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 brave | conj |
| 6 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 brave | conj |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Cloud | det |
| 8 | tall | tall | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 Cloud | amod |
| 9 | Red | Red | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Cloud | flat |
| 10 | Cloud | Cloud | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 was | nsubj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 son | punct |
| 12 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 son | det |
| 13 | peerless | peerless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 son | amod |
| 14 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 Cloud | appos |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 race | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 race | det |
| 17 | giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 race | amod |
| 18 | race | race | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 son | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 set | punct |
| 20 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 set | cc |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 eyes | det |
| 22 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 set | nsubj:pass |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 panther | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 panther | det |
| 25 | panther | panther | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 eyes | nmod |
| 26 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 set | aux:pass |
| 27 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 brave | conj |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 face | case |
| 29 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 face | nmod:poss |
| 30 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 set | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 brave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | the tall Red Cloud | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | set | past · passive | the eyes of the panther | Cloud's face | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in face=Destination |
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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