Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 3, sentence 61
An-pé-tu-wee [70] walked in the west --to his lodge in the midst of the mountains, And the war eagle flew to her nest in the oak on the Isle of the Spirit.
Who acts: pé tu wee, war eagle · What happens: walk, fly · To what, where: west, oak
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 (pé tu wee, war eagle), 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 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 wee | det |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 pé | punct |
| 3 | pé | pé | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 wee | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 pé | punct |
| 5 | tu | tu | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 wee | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 tu | punct |
| 7 | wee | wee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 walked | nsubj |
| 8 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 9 70 | punct |
| 9 | 70 | 70 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 wee | appos |
| 10 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 9 70 | punct |
| 11 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 west | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 west | det |
| 14 | west | west | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 walked | obl |
| 15 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 18 lodge | punct |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 lodge | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 lodge | nmod:poss |
| 18 | lodge | lodge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 walked | obl |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 midst | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 midst | det |
| 21 | midst | midst | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 lodge | nmod |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 mountains | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 mountains | det |
| 24 | mountains | mountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 midst | nmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 flew | punct |
| 26 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 flew | cc |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 eagle | det |
| 28 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 eagle | compound |
| 29 | eagle | eagle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 flew | nsubj |
| 30 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 walked | conj |
| 31 | to | to | ADP | _ | 33 nest | case |
| 32 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 nest | nmod:poss |
| 33 | nest | nest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 flew | obl |
| 34 | in | in | ADP | _ | 36 oak | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 oak | det |
| 36 | oak | oak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 flew | obl |
| 37 | on | on | ADP | _ | 39 Isle | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 Isle | det |
| 39 | Isle | Isle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 oak | nmod |
| 40 | of | of | ADP | _ | 42 Spirit | case |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 Spirit | det |
| 42 | Spirit | Spirit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 39 Isle | nmod |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 walked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk | past | a pé tu wee | the west | to wee's lodge in the midst of the mountains result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to lodge=Result | |||
| 2 | fly | past | the war eagle | the oak on the Isle of the Spirit | to hand's nest | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent in oak=Location |
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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