Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 4, sentence 106
Till high o'er the hills of the east Anpétuwee walked on his journey, In secret they danced at the feast, and communed with the mighty Unktéhee.
Who acts: hills, Anpétuwee · What happens: walk, dance, commune, journey · To what, where: journey, secret
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 (hills, Anpétuwee), 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 | Till | till | ADP | _ | 2 high | case |
| 2 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 walked | obl |
| 3 | o'er | o'er | ADP | _ | 5 hills | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 hills | det |
| 5 | hills | hill | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 walked | nsubj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 east | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 east | det |
| 8 | east | east | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 hills | nmod |
| 9 | Anpétuwee | Anpétuwee | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 east | appos |
| 10 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 journey | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 journey | nmod:poss |
| 13 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 walked | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 danced | punct |
| 15 | In | in | ADP | _ | 16 secret | case |
| 16 | secret | secret | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 danced | obl |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 danced | nsubj |
| 18 | danced | dance | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 walked | conj |
| 19 | at | at | ADP | _ | 21 feast | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 feast | det |
| 21 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 danced | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 communed | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 communed | cc |
| 24 | communed | commune | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 danced | conj |
| 25 | with | with | ADP | _ | 28 Unktéhee | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 Unktéhee | det |
| 27 | mighty | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 Unktéhee | amod |
| 28 | Unktéhee | Unktéhee | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 communed | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 walked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk | past | the hills of the east | Anpétuwee's journey | till high | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on journey=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | dance | past | hills = hill | secret | at the feast | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in secret=Location | |||
| 3 | commune | participle | hills = hill not said here | with the mighty Unktéhee | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | journey | Anpétuwee | nom journey «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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