Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 4, sentence 26
At his heels flies Hu-pá-hu, [a] the fleet --the pride of the band of Kaóza, A warrior with eagle-winged feet, but his prize is the bow and the quiver.
Who acts: prize · What happens: fly, wing, be, pride · To what, where: Hu, heels, bow, band
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 (prize), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 heels | case |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 heels | nmod:poss |
| 3 | heels | heel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 flies | obl |
| 4 | flies | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | Hu | Hu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 flies | obj |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 Hu | punct |
| 7 | pá | pá | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 Hu | list |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 hu | punct |
| 9 | hu | Hu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Hu | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 fleet | punct |
| 11 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 15 fleet | punct |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 fleet | det |
| 13 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 15 fleet | punct |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 fleet | det |
| 15 | fleet | fleet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 flies | parataxis |
| 16 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 18 pride | punct |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 pride | det |
| 18 | pride | pride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 fleet | conj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 band | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 band | det |
| 21 | band | band | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 pride | nmod |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 Kaóza | case |
| 23 | Kaóza | Kaóza | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 band | nmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 warrior | punct |
| 25 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 warrior | det |
| 26 | warrior | warrior | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 fleet | conj |
| 27 | with | with | ADP | _ | 31 feet | case |
| 28 | eagle | eagle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 winged | compound |
| 29 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 28 eagle | punct |
| 30 | winged | wing | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 31 feet | amod |
| 31 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 warrior | nmod |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 bow | punct |
| 33 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 38 bow | cc |
| 34 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 prize | nmod:poss |
| 35 | prize | prize | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 bow | nsubj |
| 36 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 38 bow | cop |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 bow | det |
| 38 | bow | bow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 flies | parataxis |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 quiver | cc |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 quiver | det |
| 41 | quiver | quiver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 bow | conj |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 flies | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly | present | Hu pá and hu | Tamdóka's heels | a fleet and the pride of the band of Kaóza and a warrior with winged feet parataxis | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent hu=Theme at heel=Location | |||
| 2 | wing | participle | eagle compound | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a | present | Tamdóka's prize | the bow and the quiver | the quiver conj | tree rules | |||
| 4 | pride | the band of Kaóza | nom pride «feeling 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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