Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 4, sentence 27
Tamdóka first reaches the post, and his are the knife and the blanket, By the mighty acclaim of the host and award of the chief and the judges.
Who acts: Tamdóka · What happens: reach, be, acclaim, award · To what, where: post, knife, host, chief
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 (Tamdóka), 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 | Tamdóka | Tamdóka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 reaches | nsubj |
| 2 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 3 reaches | advmod |
| 3 | reaches | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 post | det |
| 5 | post | post | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 reaches | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 knife | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 knife | cc |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 knife | nmod:poss |
| 9 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 knife | cop |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 knife | det |
| 11 | knife | knife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 reaches | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 blanket | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 blanket | det |
| 14 | blanket | blanket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 knife | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 acclaim | punct |
| 16 | By | by | ADP | _ | 19 acclaim | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 acclaim | det |
| 18 | mighty | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 acclaim | amod |
| 19 | acclaim | acclaim | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 reaches | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 host | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 host | det |
| 22 | host | host | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 acclaim | nmod |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 award | cc |
| 24 | award | award | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 host | conj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 chief | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 chief | det |
| 27 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 award | nmod |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 judges | cc |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 judges | det |
| 30 | judges | judge | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 host | conj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 reaches | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | present | Tamdóka | the post | by the mighty acclaim of the host and award of the chief and the judges; first property | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent post=Theme | |||
| 2 | is a | present | Tamdóka's knife and the blanket | Tamdóka nmod:poss; the blanket conj | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | acclaim | the host and award of the chief and the judges | nom acclaim «communication transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 4 | award | the chief | nom award «act 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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