Legends of the Northwest, Heyóka Wacípee [16]--the Giant's Dance., sentence 133
The sweeter the moments the swifter they fly; Love takes no account of the fleeting hours; He walks in a dream mid the blooming of flowers, And never awakes till the blossoms die.
Who acts: lilies, Love, blossoms · What happens: fly, take, walk, not awake, die, account · To what, where: swifter, account, mid, dream, sweeter moments, fleeting hours
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 (lilies, Love, blossoms), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 sweeter | det |
| 2 | sweeter | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 moments | amod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 moments | det |
| 4 | moments | moment | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 swifter | det |
| 6 | swifter | swifter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 moments | appos |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 fly | nsubj |
| 8 | fly | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 swifter | acl:relcl |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 takes | punct |
| 10 | Love | Love | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 takes | nsubj |
| 11 | takes | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 moments | parataxis |
| 12 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 13 account | det |
| 13 | account | account | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 takes | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 hours | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 hours | det |
| 16 | fleeting | fleeting | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 hours | amod |
| 17 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 account | nmod |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 walks | punct |
| 19 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 walks | nsubj |
| 20 | walks | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 takes | conj |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 dream | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 dream | det |
| 23 | dream | dream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 walks | obl |
| 24 | mid | mid | X | _ | 20 walks | obl |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 blooming | det |
| 26 | blooming | blooming | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 walks | obl |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 flowers | case |
| 28 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 blooming | nmod |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 awakes | punct |
| 30 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 awakes | cc |
| 31 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 32 awakes | advmod |
| 32 | awakes | awake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 takes | conj |
| 33 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 36 die | mark |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 blossoms | det |
| 35 | blossoms | blossom | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 die | nsubj |
| 36 | die | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 awakes | advcl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 moments | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly | present | lilies = lily | the swifter not said here | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location swifter=Theme | ||||
| 2 | take | present | Love | no account of the fleeting hours | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent account=Theme | ||||
| 3 | walk | present | love | mid | a dream | the blooming of flowers obl | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in dream=Trajectory | ||
| 4 | not awake | present | Love not said here | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | die | present | the blossoms | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 7 | account | the fleeting hours | nom account «communication 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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