Legends of the Northwest, Heyóka Wacípee [16]--the Giant's Dance., sentence 77
Swift to their ponies the hunters sped, And dashed away on the hurried chase.
Who acts: Swift · What happens: speed, dash away, hurry · To what, where: hurried chase
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 (Swift), 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 | Swift | swift | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sped | nsubj |
| 2 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 ponies | case |
| 3 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 ponies | nmod:poss |
| 4 | ponies | pony | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Swift | nmod |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 hunters | det |
| 6 | hunters | hunter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 sped | nsubj |
| 7 | sped | speed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 dashed | punct |
| 9 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 dashed | cc |
| 10 | dashed | dash | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 sped | conj |
| 11 | away | away | ADV | _ | 10 dashed | advmod |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 chase | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 chase | det |
| 14 | hurried | hurry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 chase | amod |
| 15 | chase | chase | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 dashed | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 sped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speed | past | Swift to shout's ponies | the hunters nsubj | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | dash away | past | Swift to shout's ponies not said here | the hurried chase | away property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on chase=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | hurry | participle | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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