Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 4, sentence 28

Then proud was the tall warrior's stride, and haughty his look and demeanor; He boasted aloud in his pride, and he scoffed at the rest of the runners. "

Who acts: stride, Tamdóka, tall warrior · What happens: be, boast, scoff, stride, pride · To what, where: pride, rest

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 (stride, Tamdóka, tall warrior), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 proud	advmod
2	proud	proud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 proud	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 warrior	det
5	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 warrior	amod
6	warrior	warrior	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 stride	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 warrior	case
8	stride	stride	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 proud	nsubj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 haughty	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 haughty	cc
11	haughty	haughty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 proud	conj
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 look	nmod:poss
13	look	look	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 haughty	conj
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 demeanor	cc
15	demeanor	demeanor	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 look	conj
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 boasted	punct
17	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 boasted	nsubj
18	boasted	boast	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 proud	parataxis
19	aloud	aloud	ADV	_	18 boasted	advmod
20	in	in	ADP	_	22 pride	case
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 pride	nmod:poss
22	pride	pride	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 boasted	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 scoffed	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 scoffed	cc
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 scoffed	nsubj
26	scoffed	scoff	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 boasted	conj
27	at	at	ADP	_	29 rest	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 rest	det
29	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 scoffed	obl
30	of	of	ADP	_	32 runners	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 runners	det
32	runners	runner	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 rest	nmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 proud	punct
34	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 proud	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the tall warrior's stride		then	proud property	tree rules
2	be		the tall warrior's stride not said here			Tamdóka's look and demeanor conj	tree rules
3	boast speech: other	past	Tamdóka	Tamdóka's pride		aloud property	vn complain-37.8 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	scoff	past	Tamdóka	the rest of the runners			vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	stride		the tall warrior				nom stride «act transitive»: poss=agent
6	pride		Tamdóka				nom pride «feeling transitive»: poss=agent

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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🌲 Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 4, sentence 28

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 4, sentence 28