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Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 4, sentence 5

[16] With the flash and the roar of his gun he astonished the fearless Dakotas; They called it the "Máza Wakán" --the mighty, mysterious metal. "'

Who acts: esteem, Dakotas, gun · What happens: astonish, call, roar · To what, where: fearless Dakotas, gun, 16 · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (esteem, Dakotas, gun), 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

punctpunctcasedetnmodccdetconjcasenmod:possnmodnsubjacl:relcldetamodobjpunctnsubjacl:relclobjdetpunctxcompflatpunctpunctdetamodpunctamodappospunctpunctpunctroot[PUNCT16NUM]PUNCTWithADPtheDETflashNOUNandCCONJtheDETroarNOUNofADPhisPRONgunNOUNhePRONastonishedVERBtheDETfearlessADJDakotasNOUN;PUNCTTheyPRONcalledVERBitPRONtheDET"PUNCTMázaPROPNWakánPROPN"PUNCT--PUNCTtheDETmightyADJ,PUNCTmysteriousADJmetalNOUN.PUNCT"PUNCT'PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1[[PUNCT_2 16punct
21616NUMNumForm=Digit NumType=Cardrootroot
3]]PUNCT_2 16punct
4WithwithADP_6 flashcase
5thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art6 flashdet
6flashflashNOUNNumber=Sing2 16nmod
7andandCCONJ_9 roarcc
8thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art9 roardet
9roarroarNOUNNumber=Sing6 flashconj
10ofofADP_12 guncase
11hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs12 gunnmod:poss
12gungunNOUNNumber=Sing9 roarnmod
13hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs14 astonishednsubj
14astonishedastonishVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin12 gunacl:relcl
15thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art17 Dakotasdet
16fearlessfearlessADJDegree=Pos17 Dakotasamod
17DakotasdakotaNOUNNumber=Plur14 astonishedobj
18;;PUNCT_20 calledpunct
19TheytheyPRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs20 callednsubj
20calledcallVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin2 16acl:relcl
21ititPRONCase=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs20 calledobj
22thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art24 Mázadet
23""PUNCT_24 Mázapunct
24MázaMázaPROPNNumber=Sing20 calledxcomp
25WakánWakánPROPNNumber=Sing24 Mázaflat
26""PUNCT_24 Mázapunct
27----PUNCT_32 metalpunct
28thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art32 metaldet
29mightymightyADJDegree=Pos32 metalamod
30,,PUNCT_29 mightypunct
31mysteriousmysteriousADJDegree=Pos32 metalamod
32metalmetalNOUNNumber=Sing24 Mázaappos
33..PUNCT_2 16punct
34""PUNCT_2 16punct
35''PUNCT_2 16punct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1astonishpastesteemthe fearless Dakotasvn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus dakota=Experiencer
2callpastDakotas = dakotagunthe Máza xcompvn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient
4roaresteem's gunnom roar «event intransitive»: of=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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