Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 3, sentence 56
[a] Tah-mdo-kah--literally the buck deer.
To what, where: Tah mdo kah
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: 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 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 8 kah | punct |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 kah | det |
| 3 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 2 a | punct |
| 4 | Tah | Tah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 kah | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 Tah | punct |
| 6 | mdo | mdo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 kah | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 mdo | punct |
| 8 | kah | kah | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 13 deer | punct |
| 10 | literally | literally | ADV | _ | 13 deer | advmod |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 deer | det |
| 12 | buck | buck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 deer | compound |
| 13 | deer | deer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 kah | conj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 kah | punct |
Pragmatics
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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