Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 1, sentence 107
The piping plover, the laughing linnet, And the swallow sail in the sunset skies.
What happens: laugh · To what, where: piping plover
This is a sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Feast of the Virgins., part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 plover | det |
| 2 | piping | piping | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 plover | compound |
| 3 | plover | plover | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 linnet | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 linnet | det |
| 6 | laughing | laugh | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 linnet | amod |
| 7 | linnet | linnet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 plover | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 sail | punct |
| 9 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 sail | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 sail | det |
| 11 | swallow | swallow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 sail | compound |
| 12 | sail | sail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 plover | conj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 skies | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 skies | det |
| 15 | sunset | sunset | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 skies | compound |
| 16 | skies | sky | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 sail | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 plover | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | laugh | gerund | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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