Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 4, sentence 23
From his teepee the tall chieftain comes, and Duluth brings a prize for the runners-- A keen hunting-knife from the Seine, horn-handled and mounted with silver.
Who acts: tall chieftain, Duluth · What happens: come, bring, handle, mount · To what, where: teepee, prize
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 (tall chieftain, Duluth), 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 | From | from | ADP | _ | 3 teepee | case |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 teepee | nmod:poss |
| 3 | teepee | teepee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 comes | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 chieftain | det |
| 5 | tall | tall | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 chieftain | amod |
| 6 | chieftain | chieftain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 comes | nsubj |
| 7 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 brings | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 brings | cc |
| 10 | Duluth | Duluth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 brings | nsubj |
| 11 | brings | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 comes | conj |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 prize | det |
| 13 | prize | prize | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 brings | obj |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 runners | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 runners | det |
| 16 | runners | runner | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 brings | obl |
| 17 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 22 knife | punct |
| 18 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 knife | det |
| 19 | keen | keen | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 knife | amod |
| 20 | hunting | hunting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 knife | compound |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 hunting | punct |
| 22 | knife | knife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 runners | conj |
| 23 | from | from | ADP | _ | 25 Seine | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 Seine | det |
| 25 | Seine | seine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 knife | nmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 handled | punct |
| 27 | horn | horn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 handled | compound |
| 28 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 27 horn | punct |
| 29 | handled | handle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 knife | parataxis |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 mounted | cc |
| 31 | mounted | mount | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 29 handled | conj |
| 32 | with | with | ADP | _ | 33 silver | case |
| 33 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 mounted | obl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 comes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | present | the tall chieftain | Hark's teepee | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from teepee=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | bring | present | Duluth | a prize | for the runners and a keen hunting knife from the Seine | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent prize=Theme | |||
| 3 | handle | participle | horn compound | vn hold-15.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | mount | participle | with silver | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with silver=Instrument |
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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