Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 3, sentence 36
Yea, stronger and braver are they," said the aged Menard to Winona, "Than the head-chief, tall Wazi-kuté, [74] but their words are as soft as a maiden's; Their eyes are the eyes of the swan, but their hearts are the hearts of the eagles; And the terrible Máza Wakán [b] ever walks, by their side like a spirit.
Who acts: canoes, aged Menard, eyes, hearts, terrible Máza · What happens: be, say, walk, word · To what, where: canoes, eyes, hearts · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (canoes, aged Menard, eyes, hearts), 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 | Yea | yea | INTJ | _ | 3 stronger | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yea | punct |
| 3 | stronger | strong | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 7 they | amod |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 braver | cc |
| 5 | braver | brave | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 stronger | conj |
| 6 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 they | cop |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 said | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 they | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 they | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Menard | det |
| 12 | aged | aged | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 Menard | amod |
| 13 | Menard | Menard | PROPN | Number=Sing | 37 soft | nsubj |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 Winona | case |
| 15 | Winona | Winona | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Menard | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 chief | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 chief | punct |
| 18 | Than | than | ADP | _ | 22 chief | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 chief | det |
| 20 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 chief | compound |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 head | punct |
| 22 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 Menard | appos |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 kuté | punct |
| 24 | tall | tall | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 kuté | amod |
| 25 | Wazi | Wazi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 kuté | compound |
| 26 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 25 Wazi | punct |
| 27 | kuté | kuté | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 chief | conj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 74 | punct |
| 29 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 30 74 | punct |
| 30 | 74 | 74 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 27 kuté | appos |
| 31 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 30 74 | punct |
| 32 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 34 words | cc |
| 33 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 words | nmod:poss |
| 34 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 Menard | conj |
| 35 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 37 soft | cop |
| 36 | as | as | ADV | _ | 37 soft | advmod |
| 37 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 said | ccomp |
| 38 | as | as | ADP | _ | 40 maiden | case |
| 39 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 40 maiden | det |
| 40 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 soft | obl |
| 41 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 40 maiden | case |
| 42 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 47 eyes | punct |
| 43 | Their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 44 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 44 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 47 eyes | nsubj |
| 45 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 47 eyes | cop |
| 46 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 47 eyes | det |
| 47 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 said | obl |
| 48 | of | of | ADP | _ | 50 swan | case |
| 49 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 50 swan | det |
| 50 | swan | swan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 eyes | nmod |
| 51 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 57 hearts | punct |
| 52 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 57 hearts | cc |
| 53 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 54 hearts | nmod:poss |
| 54 | hearts | heart | NOUN | Number=Plur | 57 hearts | nsubj |
| 55 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 57 hearts | cop |
| 56 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 57 hearts | det |
| 57 | hearts | heart | NOUN | Number=Plur | 47 eyes | conj |
| 58 | of | of | ADP | _ | 60 eagles | case |
| 59 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 60 eagles | det |
| 60 | eagles | eagle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 57 hearts | nmod |
| 61 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 71 walks | punct |
| 62 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 71 walks | cc |
| 63 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 65 Máza | det |
| 64 | terrible | terrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 65 Máza | amod |
| 65 | Máza | Máza | PROPN | Number=Sing | 71 walks | nsubj |
| 66 | Wakán | Wakán | PROPN | Number=Sing | 65 Máza | flat |
| 67 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 68 b | punct |
| 68 | b | b | NUM | _ | 65 Máza | flat |
| 69 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 65 Máza | punct |
| 70 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 71 walks | advmod |
| 71 | walks | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 said | conj |
| 72 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 75 side | punct |
| 73 | by | by | ADP | _ | 75 side | case |
| 74 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 75 side | nmod:poss |
| 75 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 71 walks | obl |
| 76 | like | like | ADP | _ | 78 spirit | case |
| 77 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 78 spirit | det |
| 78 | spirit | spirit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 75 side | nmod |
| 79 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | canoes = canoe | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | canoes = canoe | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | present | the aged Menard to Winona but canoes's words | as a maiden; soft property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is a | present | canoes's eyes | the eyes but the hearts | of the swan | tree rules | |||
| 5 | is a | present | canoes's hearts | the hearts | of the eagles | tree rules | |||
| 6 | walk | present | the terrible Máza | ever | by canoes's side like a spirit | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by side=Trajectory | |||
| 7 | word | canoes = canoe | nom word «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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