Legends of the Northwest, The Game of Ball. [2], sentence 4
They look on the robe and its beauty gladdens, And maddens their hearts for the splendid prize.
Who acts: bounds, beauty · What happens: look, gladden, madden · To what, where: hearts
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 (bounds, beauty), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 look | nsubj |
| 2 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 robe | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 robe | det |
| 5 | robe | robe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 look | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 gladdens | cc |
| 7 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 beauty | nmod:poss |
| 8 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 gladdens | nsubj |
| 9 | gladdens | gladden | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 look | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 maddens | punct |
| 11 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 maddens | cc |
| 12 | maddens | madden | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 gladdens | conj |
| 13 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 hearts | nmod:poss |
| 14 | hearts | heart | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 maddens | obj |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 prize | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 prize | det |
| 17 | splendid | splendid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 prize | amod |
| 18 | prize | prize | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 maddens | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 look | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | present | bounds = bound | on the robe | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on robe=Theme | ||||
| 2 | gladden | present | robe's beauty | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | madden | present | robe's beauty not said here | bounds's hearts | for the splendid prize | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus heart=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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