Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 1, sentence 23
And dares the tall coward to say me no?"
What happens: dare, say · To what, where: tall coward, me · Speech: someone speaks here
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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 2 dares | cc |
| 2 | dares | dare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 coward | det |
| 4 | tall | tall | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 coward | amod |
| 5 | coward | coward | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 dares | obj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 say | mark |
| 7 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 dares | advcl |
| 8 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 say | obj |
| 9 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 8 me | det |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 dares | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 dares | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dare | present | the tall coward | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coward=Recipient | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | to-infinitive | me | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent i=Topic |
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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