Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 3, sentence 37

Like a Thunder-bird, roaring in wrath, flinging fire from his terrible talons, It sends to their enemies death, in the flash of the fatal Wakándee."

Who acts: Thunder bird, fire, canoes, fatal Wakándee · What happens: roar, fling, send, die, flash · To what, where: wrath, fire, terrible talons, enemies death

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 (Thunder bird, fire, canoes, fatal Wakándee), 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	_	5 bird	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 bird	det
3	Thunder	thunder	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bird	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 Thunder	punct
5	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 sends	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 roaring	punct
7	roaring	roar	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 bird	acl
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 wrath	case
9	wrath	wrath	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 roaring	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 flinging	punct
11	flinging	fling	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 roaring	conj
12	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 flinging	obj
13	from	from	ADP	_	16 talons	case
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 talons	nmod:poss
15	terrible	terrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 talons	amod
16	talons	talon	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 flinging	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 bird	punct
18	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 sends	nsubj
19	sends	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
20	to	to	ADP	_	23 death	case
21	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 death	nmod:poss
22	enemies	enemy	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 death	compound
23	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 sends	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 flash	punct
25	in	in	ADP	_	27 flash	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 flash	det
27	flash	flash	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 sends	conj
28	of	of	ADP	_	31 Wakándee	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 Wakándee	det
30	fatal	fatal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 Wakándee	amod
31	Wakándee	Wakándee	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 flash	nmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 sends	punct
33	"	"	PUNCT	_	19 sends	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	roar	gerund	a Thunder bird not said here		wrath		vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in wrath=Location
2	fling	gerund	a Thunder bird not said here	fire	Máza's terrible talons		vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent fire=Theme from talon=Initial_Location
3	send	present	fire		canoes's enemies death	like a Thunder bird; the flash of the fatal Wakándee conj	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to death=Destination
4	die		canoes = canoe				nom death «event intransitive»: poss=agent
5	flash		the fatal Wakándee				nom flash «event 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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🌲 Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 3, sentence 37

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 3, sentence 37