Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 3, sentence 15
His famished and woe-begone face, and his tones touched the hearts of the hunters; They fed the poor father apace, and they led him away to Ka-thá-ga.
Who acts: famished begone face, tones, Unktómee · What happens: famish, touch, feed, lead away, intonate · To what, where: hearts, poor father apace, Unktómee, Ka thá
This is a sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Feast of the Virgins., part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (famished begone face, tones, Unktómee), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 face | nmod:poss |
| 2 | famished | famish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 face | amod |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 face | cc |
| 4 | woe | woe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 begone | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 woe | punct |
| 6 | begone | begone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 face | compound |
| 7 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 touched | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 touched | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 touched | cc |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 tones | nmod:poss |
| 11 | tones | tone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 touched | nsubj |
| 12 | touched | touch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 hearts | det |
| 14 | hearts | heart | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 touched | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 hunters | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 hunters | det |
| 17 | hunters | hunter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 hearts | nmod |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 fed | punct |
| 19 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 fed | nsubj |
| 20 | fed | feed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 touched | conj |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 apace | det |
| 22 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 apace | amod |
| 23 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 apace | compound |
| 24 | apace | apace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 fed | obj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 led | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 led | cc |
| 27 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 led | nsubj |
| 28 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 fed | conj |
| 29 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 led | obj |
| 30 | away | away | ADV | _ | 28 led | advmod |
| 31 | to | to | ADP | _ | 34 thá | case |
| 32 | Ka | Ka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 thá | compound |
| 33 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 32 Ka | punct |
| 34 | thá | thá | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 led | obl |
| 35 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 36 ga | punct |
| 36 | ga | ga | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 thá | appos |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 touched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | famish | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | touch | past | Unktómee's famished begone face | the hearts of the hunters | Unktómee's tones nsubj | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme heart=Co-Theme | |||
| 3 | feed | past | tones = tone | the poor father apace | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent apace=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | lead away | past | tones = tone | Unktómee | Ka thá | away property | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to thá=Destination | ||
| 5 | intonate | Unktómee | nom tone «communication transitive»: poss=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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