Legends of the Northwest, Heyóka Wacípee [16]--the Giant's Dance., sentence 78
The wild steeds scented the game ahead, And sprang like hounds to the eager race.
Who acts: wild steeds · What happens: scent, spring · To what, where: game, eager race
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 (wild steeds), 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 | 3 steeds | det |
| 2 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 steeds | amod |
| 3 | steeds | steed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 scented | nsubj |
| 4 | scented | scent | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 game | det |
| 6 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 scented | obj |
| 7 | ahead | ahead | ADV | _ | 4 scented | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 sprang | punct |
| 9 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 sprang | cc |
| 10 | sprang | spring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 scented | conj |
| 11 | like | like | ADP | _ | 12 hounds | case |
| 12 | hounds | hound | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 sprang | obl |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 race | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 race | det |
| 15 | eager | eager | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 race | amod |
| 16 | race | race | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sprang | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 scented | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | scent | past | the wild steeds | the game | ahead property | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent game=Destination | |||
| 2 | spring | past | the wild steeds not said here | the eager race | like hounds | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to race=Destination |
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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