Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 3, sentence 64
[a] The Dakotas say that for many years in olden times a war-eagle made her nest in an oak tree on Spirit island--Wanagi-wita just below the Falls till frightened away by the advent of white men.
Who acts: Dakotas, war eagle, Falls · What happens: say, make, till, frighten away · To what, where: nest, oak tree, Wanagi wita · 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 (Dakotas, war eagle, Falls), 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 | _ | 3 ] | punct |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 ] | det |
| 3 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | root | root |
| 4 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Dakotas | det |
| 5 | Dakotas | dakota | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 say | nsubj |
| 6 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 ] | acl:relcl |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 made | mark |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 years | case |
| 9 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 years | amod |
| 10 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 made | obl |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 times | case |
| 12 | olden | olden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 times | amod |
| 13 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 made | obl |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 eagle | det |
| 15 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 eagle | compound |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 war | punct |
| 17 | eagle | eagle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 made | nsubj |
| 18 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 say | ccomp |
| 19 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 nest | nmod:poss |
| 20 | nest | nest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 made | obj |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 tree | case |
| 22 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 tree | det |
| 23 | oak | oak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 tree | compound |
| 24 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 made | obl |
| 25 | on | on | ADP | _ | 27 island | case |
| 26 | Spirit | Spirit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 island | compound |
| 27 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 made | obl |
| 28 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 31 wita | punct |
| 29 | Wanagi | Wanagi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 wita | compound |
| 30 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 29 Wanagi | punct |
| 31 | wita | wita | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 island | conj |
| 32 | just | just | ADV | _ | 35 Falls | advmod |
| 33 | below | below | ADP | _ | 35 Falls | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 Falls | det |
| 35 | Falls | Falls | PROPN | Number=Plur | 36 till | nsubj |
| 36 | till | till | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 wita | acl:relcl |
| 37 | frightened | frighten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 36 till | xcomp |
| 38 | away | away | ADV | _ | 37 frightened | advmod |
| 39 | by | by | ADP | _ | 41 advent | case |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 advent | det |
| 41 | advent | advent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 frightened | obl |
| 42 | of | of | ADP | _ | 44 men | case |
| 43 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 men | amod |
| 44 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 41 advent | nmod |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 ] | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | the Dakotas | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | make | past | a war eagle | beaver's nest | a oak tree | time; year | on Spirit island and Wanagi wita | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nest=Product | |
| 3 | till | present | the Falls | Wanagi wita not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | frighten away | participle | the Falls not said here | by the advent of white men; away property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
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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