Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 3, sentence 74
A bold and and adventuresome man was DuLuth, and a dauntless in danger, And straight to Kathága he ran, and boldly advanced to the warriors, Now gathering, a cloud, on the strand, and gazing amazed on the strangers; And straightway he offered his hand unto Wázi-kuté, the Itáncan.
Who acts: bold, DuLuth, straightway · What happens: be, run, gather, amaze, offer · To what, where: DuLuth, danger, strangers, hand
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 (bold, DuLuth, straightway), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 bold | det |
| 2 | bold | bold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 DuLuth | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 2 bold | cc |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 man | cc |
| 5 | adventuresome | adventuresome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 man | amod |
| 6 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 bold | conj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 DuLuth | cop |
| 8 | DuLuth | DuLuth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 ran | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 dauntless | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 dauntless | cc |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 dauntless | det |
| 12 | dauntless | dauntless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 DuLuth | conj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 danger | case |
| 14 | danger | danger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 dauntless | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 ran | punct |
| 16 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 ran | cc |
| 17 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 19 Kathága | advmod |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 Kathága | case |
| 19 | Kathága | Kathága | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 ran | nsubj |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 ran | nsubj |
| 21 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 advanced | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 advanced | cc |
| 24 | boldly | boldly | ADV | Degree=Pos | 25 advanced | advmod |
| 25 | advanced | advanced | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 ran | parataxis |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 warriors | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 warriors | det |
| 28 | warriors | warrior | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 advanced | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 gathering | punct |
| 30 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 31 gathering | advmod |
| 31 | gathering | gather | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 ran | advcl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 cloud | punct |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 cloud | det |
| 34 | cloud | cloud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 gathering | parataxis |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 strand | punct |
| 36 | on | on | ADP | _ | 38 strand | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 strand | det |
| 38 | strand | strand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 ran | parataxis |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 amazed | punct |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 amazed | cc |
| 41 | gazing | gaze | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 42 amazed | aux:pass |
| 42 | amazed | amaze | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 ran | conj |
| 43 | on | on | ADP | _ | 45 strangers | case |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 strangers | det |
| 45 | strangers | stranger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 42 amazed | obl |
| 46 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 50 offered | punct |
| 47 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 50 offered | cc |
| 48 | straightway | straightway | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 offered | nsubj |
| 49 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 50 offered | nsubj |
| 50 | offered | offer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 ran | conj |
| 51 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 52 hand | nmod:poss |
| 52 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 offered | obj |
| 53 | unto | unto | ADP | _ | 56 kuté | case |
| 54 | Wázi | Wázi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 56 kuté | compound |
| 55 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 54 Wázi | punct |
| 56 | kuté | kuté | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 offered | obl |
| 57 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 59 Itáncan | punct |
| 58 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 59 Itáncan | det |
| 59 | Itáncan | Itáncan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 56 kuté | appos |
| 60 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | a bold and adventuresome man | DuLuth | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | a bold and adventuresome man not said here | danger | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | run | past | DuLuth | Kathága nsubj; the strand parataxis | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | gather | gerund | DuLuth not said here | now | a cloud parataxis | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 5 | amaze | gerund · passive | DuLuth not said here | the strangers | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle» | ||||
| 6 | offer | past | straightway | straightway's hand | unto Wázi kuté | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent hand=Theme |
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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