Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 4, sentence 107
Then opened the door of the tee to the eyes of the day and the people, And the sons of Unktéhee, to be, were endowed with the sacred Ozúha [82] By the son of tall Wazí-kuté, Tamdóka, the chief of the Magi.
Who acts: son · What happens: open, endow · To what, where: door
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 (son), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 opened | advmod |
| 2 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 door | det |
| 4 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 opened | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 tee | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 tee | det |
| 7 | tee | tee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 door | nmod |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 eyes | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 eyes | det |
| 10 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 tee | nmod |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 day | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 day | det |
| 13 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 eyes | nmod |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 people | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 people | det |
| 16 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 day | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 sons | punct |
| 18 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 sons | cc |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 sons | det |
| 20 | sons | son | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 opened | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 Unktéhee | case |
| 22 | Unktéhee | Unktéhee | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 sons | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 endowed | punct |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 endowed | mark |
| 25 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 28 endowed | aux:pass |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 endowed | punct |
| 27 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 endowed | aux:pass |
| 28 | endowed | endow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 opened | conj |
| 29 | with | with | ADP | _ | 32 Ozúha | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 Ozúha | det |
| 31 | sacred | sacred | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 Ozúha | amod |
| 32 | Ozúha | Ozúha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 endowed | obl |
| 33 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 34 82 | punct |
| 34 | 82 | 82 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 32 Ozúha | appos |
| 35 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 34 82 | punct |
| 36 | By | by | ADP | _ | 38 son | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 son | det |
| 38 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 endowed | obl |
| 39 | of | of | ADP | _ | 43 kuté | case |
| 40 | tall | tall | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 kuté | amod |
| 41 | Wazí | Wazí | PROPN | Number=Sing | 43 kuté | compound |
| 42 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 41 Wazí | punct |
| 43 | kuté | kuté | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 son | nmod |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 Tamdóka | punct |
| 45 | Tamdóka | Tamdóka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 43 kuté | appos |
| 46 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 48 chief | punct |
| 47 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 48 chief | det |
| 48 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 Tamdóka | appos |
| 49 | of | of | ADP | _ | 51 Magi | case |
| 50 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 51 Magi | det |
| 51 | Magi | Magi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 48 chief | nmod |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 opened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | open | past | the door of the tee to the eyes of the day and the people | then | the sons of Unktéhee obl | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location door=Theme | |||
| 2 | endow | to-infinitive · passive | the son of tall Wazí kuté | with the sacred Ozúha | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with ozúha=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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