Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 1, sentence 36
They hear the hoot of the mottled owl; They hear the were-wolf's [52] winding howl; But the swift Wiwâstè is far away.
Who acts: hunters, swift, mottled owl · What happens: hear, mottle, be, wind, hoot · To what, where: hoot, howl
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 (hunters, swift, mottled owl), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 hear | nsubj |
| 2 | hear | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 hoot | det |
| 4 | hoot | hoot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 hear | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 owl | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 owl | det |
| 7 | mottled | mottle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 owl | amod |
| 8 | owl | owl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 hoot | nmod |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 hear | punct |
| 10 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 hear | nsubj |
| 11 | hear | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 hear | conj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 wolf | det |
| 13 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 wolf | cop |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 wolf | punct |
| 15 | wolf | wolf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 hear | obj |
| 16 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 15 wolf | case |
| 17 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 18 52 | punct |
| 18 | 52 | 52 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 15 wolf | appos |
| 19 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 18 52 | punct |
| 20 | winding | wind | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 hear | xcomp |
| 21 | howl | howl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 winding | obj |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 29 away | punct |
| 23 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 29 away | cc |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 swift | det |
| 25 | swift | swift | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 away | nsubj |
| 26 | Wiwâstè | Wiwâstè | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 swift | appos |
| 27 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 away | cop |
| 28 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 29 away | advmod |
| 29 | away | away | ADV | _ | 2 hear | advmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 hear | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | present | hunters = hunter | the hoot of the mottled owl | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer hoot=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | mottle | participle | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | hear | present | hunters = hunter | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | is | past | 's the wolf; 52 appos | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | wind | gerund | hunters = hunter not said here | howl | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent howl=Theme | ||||
| 6 | is | present | the swift | away, far property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | hoot | the mottled owl | nom hoot «communication intransitive»: of=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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