Legends of the Northwest, The Game of Ball. [2], sentence 33
Wiwâstè looked on the warrior tall; She saw he was brawny and brave and great, But the eyes of the panther she could but hate, And a brave Hóhé [15] loved she better than all.
Who acts: Wiwâstè, Cloud, brave Hóhé · What happens: look, see, be, love · 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 (Wiwâstè, Cloud, brave Hóhé), 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 | Wiwâstè | Wiwâstè | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 looked | nsubj |
| 2 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 warrior | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 warrior | det |
| 5 | warrior | warrior | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 looked | obl |
| 6 | tall | tall | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 looked | xcomp |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 9 saw | punct |
| 8 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 saw | nsubj |
| 9 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 looked | parataxis |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 brawny | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 brawny | cop |
| 12 | brawny | brawny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 saw | ccomp |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 brave | cc |
| 14 | brave | brave | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 brawny | conj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 great | cc |
| 16 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 brawny | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 could | punct |
| 18 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 25 could | cc |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 eyes | det |
| 20 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 could | nsubj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 panther | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 panther | det |
| 23 | panther | panther | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 eyes | nmod |
| 24 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 could | nsubj |
| 25 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 saw | conj |
| 26 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 27 hate | cc |
| 27 | hate | hate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 could | conj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 loved | punct |
| 29 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 loved | cc |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 Hóhé | det |
| 31 | brave | brave | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 Hóhé | amod |
| 32 | Hóhé | Hóhé | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 loved | nsubj |
| 33 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 34 15 | punct |
| 34 | 15 | 15 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 32 Hóhé | appos |
| 35 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 34 15 | punct |
| 36 | loved | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 saw | conj |
| 37 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 better | nsubj |
| 38 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 36 loved | ccomp |
| 39 | than | than | ADP | _ | 40 all | case |
| 40 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 38 better | obl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | Wiwâstè | on the warrior; tall property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on warrior=Theme | ||||
| 2 | see | past | Wiwâstè | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | is | past | Cloud | brawny property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | be | Cloud not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | be | Cloud not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 6 | love | past | a brave Hóhé | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer |
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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