Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 4, sentence 21
With the oil of the buck and the bear their sinewy limbs are anointed, For fleet are the feet of the deer and strong are the limbs of the bruin, And long is the course and severe for the swiftest and strongest of runners.
Who acts: buck, feet · What happens: anoint, be · To what, where: sinewy limbs, feet, limbs, long course
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 (buck, feet), 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 | With | with | ADP | _ | 3 oil | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 oil | det |
| 3 | oil | oil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 feet | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 buck | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 buck | det |
| 6 | buck | buck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 oil | nmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 bear | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 bear | det |
| 9 | bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 buck | conj |
| 10 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 limbs | nmod:poss |
| 11 | sinewy | sinewy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 limbs | amod |
| 12 | limbs | limb | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 anointed | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 anointed | aux:pass |
| 14 | anointed | anoint | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 buck | acl:relcl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 fleet | punct |
| 16 | For | for | ADP | _ | 17 fleet | case |
| 17 | fleet | fleet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 anointed | obl |
| 18 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 feet | cop |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 feet | det |
| 20 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 limbs | nsubj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 deer | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 deer | det |
| 23 | deer | deer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 feet | nmod |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 strong | cc |
| 25 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 deer | conj |
| 26 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 limbs | cop |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 limbs | det |
| 28 | limbs | limb | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 bruin | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 bruin | det |
| 31 | bruin | bruin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 limbs | nmod |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 course | punct |
| 33 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 course | cc |
| 34 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 course | amod |
| 35 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 37 course | cop |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 course | det |
| 37 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 limbs | nmod |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 severe | cc |
| 39 | severe | severe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 course | conj |
| 40 | for | for | ADP | _ | 42 swiftest | case |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 swiftest | det |
| 42 | swiftest | swift | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 39 severe | obl |
| 43 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 strongest | cc |
| 44 | strongest | strong | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 42 swiftest | conj |
| 45 | of | of | ADP | _ | 46 runners | case |
| 46 | runners | runner | NOUN | Number=Plur | 44 strongest | obl |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 28 limbs | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | anoint | present · passive | the buck and the bear not said here | buck's sinewy limbs | for fleet | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||
| 2 | is a | present | the feet | with the oil of the buck and the bear; of the deer | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is a | present | the feet | the limbs | of the bruin | tree rules | |||
| 4 | is a | present | the long course | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | be | for the swiftest | tree rules |
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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