Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 1, sentence 110
And her merry mate from afar replies: "Flip I will,--skip I will,--trip I will;" And away on the wings of the wind he flies.
Who acts: wind · What happens: skip, fly · To what, where: wind, merry mate
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: who acts (wind), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 mate | cc |
| 2 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 mate | nmod:poss |
| 3 | merry | merry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 mate | amod |
| 4 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 replies | case |
| 6 | afar | afar | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 replies | amod |
| 7 | replies | reply | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 mate | nmod |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 Flip | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 Flip | punct |
| 10 | Flip | flip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 mate | conj |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 will | nsubj |
| 12 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 Flip | acl:relcl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 skip | punct |
| 14 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 15 skip | punct |
| 15 | skip | skip | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 Flip | conj |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 will | nsubj |
| 17 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 skip | ccomp |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 trip | punct |
| 19 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 20 trip | punct |
| 20 | trip | trip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 Flip | conj |
| 21 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 will | nsubj |
| 22 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 trip | acl:relcl |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 Flip | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 Flip | punct |
| 25 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 away | cc |
| 26 | away | away | ADV | _ | 10 Flip | conj |
| 27 | on | on | ADP | _ | 29 wings | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 wings | det |
| 29 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 away | obl |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 wind | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 wind | det |
| 32 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 wings | nmod |
| 33 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 flies | nsubj |
| 34 | flies | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 wind | acl:relcl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 mate | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | skip in a quote | present | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | fly | present | wind | the wind not said here | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location wind=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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