Legends of the Northwest, Heyóka Wacípee [16]--the Giant's Dance., sentence 121
Revenge is swift and revenge is strong, And sweet as the hive in the hollow tree.
Who acts: Revenge · What happens: be
This is a sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, Heyóka Wacípee [16]--the Giant's Dance.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Revenge), 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 | Revenge | revenge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 swift | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 swift | cop |
| 3 | swift | swift | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 strong | cc |
| 5 | revenge | revenge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 strong | nsubj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 strong | cop |
| 7 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 swift | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 sweet | punct |
| 9 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 sweet | cc |
| 10 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 swift | conj |
| 11 | as | as | ADP | _ | 13 hive | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 hive | det |
| 13 | hive | hive | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sweet | obl |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 tree | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 tree | det |
| 16 | hollow | hollow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 tree | amod |
| 17 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 hive | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 swift | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Revenge | swift property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | present | revenge | strong property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | be | Revenge not said here | as the hive in the hollow tree | tree rules |
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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