Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 4, sentence 10
On the crest of the hills red batons marked the course for the feet of the runners.
Who acts: red batons · What happens: mark · To what, where: course, crest
This is a sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Feast of the Virgins., part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (red batons), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 3 crest | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 crest | det |
| 3 | crest | crest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 marked | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 hills | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 hills | det |
| 6 | hills | hill | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 crest | nmod |
| 7 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 batons | amod |
| 8 | batons | baton | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 marked | nsubj |
| 9 | marked | mark | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 course | det |
| 11 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 marked | obj |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 feet | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 feet | det |
| 14 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 marked | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 runners | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 runners | det |
| 17 | runners | runner | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 feet | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 marked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mark | past | red batons | the course | the crest of the hills | for the feet of the runners | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent course=Theme on crest=Destination |
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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