Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 1, sentence 96
Like a bear in the battle Wakâwa raves, And cheers the hearts of his falling braves.
What happens: cheer, fall · To what, where: hearts
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 | Like | like | ADP | _ | 3 bear | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 bear | det |
| 3 | bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 cheers | obl |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 battle | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 battle | det |
| 6 | battle | battle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bear | nmod |
| 7 | Wakâwa | Wakâwa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 raves | compound |
| 8 | raves | rave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 battle | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 cheers | punct |
| 10 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 cheers | cc |
| 11 | cheers | cheer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 hearts | det |
| 13 | hearts | heart | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 cheers | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 braves | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 braves | nmod:poss |
| 16 | falling | fall | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 braves | amod |
| 17 | braves | brave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 hearts | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 cheers | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cheer | present | the hearts of thicket's falling braves | like a bear in the battle and Wakâwa raves | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus heart=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | fall | gerund | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=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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