Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 3, sentence 75
To the Lodge of the Stranger were led DuLuth and his hardy companions; Robes of beaver and bison were spread, and the Peace pipe [23] was smoked with the Frenchman.
What happens: lead, spread, smoke · To what, where: Robes, Peace pipe
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 | To | to | ADP | _ | 3 Lodge | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Lodge | det |
| 3 | Lodge | Lodge | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 led | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 Stranger | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Stranger | det |
| 6 | Stranger | stranger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 led | obl |
| 7 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 led | aux:pass |
| 8 | led | lead | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | DuLuth | DuLuth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 led | xcomp |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 companions | cc |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 companions | nmod:poss |
| 12 | hardy | hardy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 companions | amod |
| 13 | companions | companion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 DuLuth | conj |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 spread | punct |
| 15 | Robes | robe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 spread | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 beaver | case |
| 17 | beaver | beaver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 Robes | nmod |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 bison | cc |
| 19 | bison | bison | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 beaver | conj |
| 20 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 spread | aux:pass |
| 21 | spread | spread | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 led | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 smoked | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 smoked | cc |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 pipe | det |
| 25 | Peace | peace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 pipe | compound |
| 26 | pipe | pipe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 smoked | nsubj:pass |
| 27 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 28 23 | punct |
| 28 | 23 | 23 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 26 pipe | appos |
| 29 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 28 23 | punct |
| 30 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 smoked | aux:pass |
| 31 | smoked | smoke | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 spread | conj |
| 32 | with | with | ADP | _ | 34 Frenchman | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 Frenchman | det |
| 34 | Frenchman | frenchman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 smoked | obl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 led | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lead | past · passive | to the Lodge; of the Stranger; DuLuth and straightway's hardy companions xcomp | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: to lodge=Patient | |||||
| 2 | spread | past · passive | Robes of beaver and bison | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 3 | smoke | past · passive | the Peace pipe | with the Frenchman | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with frenchman=Instrument |
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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