Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 4, sentence 19
And beside it a strong, polished bow, and a quiver of iron tipped arrows, Which Kapóza's tall chief will bestow on the fleet-footed second that follows.
Who acts: quiver, tall chief, footed second, iron · What happens: polish, tip, arrow, bestow, follow, quiver · To what, where: tipped arrows, strong polished bow
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 (quiver, tall chief, footed second, iron), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 bow | cc |
| 2 | beside | beside | ADP | _ | 3 it | case |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 bow | obl |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 bow | det |
| 5 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 bow | amod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 strong | punct |
| 7 | polished | polish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 bow | amod |
| 8 | bow | bow | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 arrows | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 arrows | cc |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 quiver | det |
| 12 | quiver | quiver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 arrows | nsubj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 iron | case |
| 14 | iron | iron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 quiver | nmod |
| 15 | tipped | tip | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 arrows | amod |
| 16 | arrows | arrow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 bow | appos |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 bestow | punct |
| 18 | Which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 bestow | obj |
| 19 | Kapóza | Kapóza | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 chief | nmod:poss |
| 20 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 19 Kapóza | case |
| 21 | tall | tall | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 chief | amod |
| 22 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 bestow | nsubj |
| 23 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 bestow | aux |
| 24 | bestow | bestow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 arrows | parataxis |
| 25 | on | on | ADP | _ | 30 second | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 second | det |
| 27 | fleet | fleet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 footed | compound |
| 28 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 27 fleet | punct |
| 29 | footed | footed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 second | amod |
| 30 | second | second | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 bestow | obl |
| 31 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 32 follows | nsubj |
| 32 | follows | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 second | acl:relcl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 bow | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | polish | participle | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | tip | participle | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | arrow | a quiver of iron | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | bestow | future | Kapóza's tall chief | tipped arrows | second | tree rules | |||
| 5 | follow | present | the footed second | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 7 | quiver | iron | nom quiver «feeling intransitive»: of=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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