Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 4, sentence 20
A score of swift-runners are there from the several bands of the nation; And now for the race they prepare, and among them fleet-footed Tamdóka.
Who acts: score, runners · What happens: be, prepare, score · To what, where: several bands, footed Tamdóka, swift runners
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 (score, runners), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 score | det |
| 2 | score | score | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 there | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 runners | case |
| 4 | swift | swift | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 runners | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 swift | punct |
| 6 | runners | runner | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 score | nmod |
| 7 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 there | cop |
| 8 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | root | root |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 bands | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 bands | det |
| 11 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 bands | amod |
| 12 | bands | band | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 there | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 nation | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 nation | det |
| 15 | nation | nation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 bands | nmod |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 prepare | punct |
| 17 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 prepare | cc |
| 18 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 23 prepare | advmod |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 race | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 race | det |
| 21 | race | race | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 prepare | obl |
| 22 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 prepare | nsubj |
| 23 | prepare | prepare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 there | parataxis |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 Tamdóka | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 Tamdóka | cc |
| 26 | among | among | ADP | _ | 27 them | case |
| 27 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 Tamdóka | obl |
| 28 | fleet | fleet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 footed | amod |
| 29 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 28 fleet | punct |
| 30 | footed | footed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 Tamdóka | amod |
| 31 | Tamdóka | Tamdóka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 prepare | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 there | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | a score of swift runners | the several bands of the nation | there property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | prepare | present | runners = runner | footed Tamdóka among arrows | now | for the race | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for race=Beneficiary | ||
| 3 | score | swift runners | nom score «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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