Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 4, sentence 51
A wife of tall Wazi-kuté --the mother of boastful Tamdóka-- Brought her handsomest robe from the tee, with a vaunting and loud proclamation: She would stake her last robe on her son who, she boasted, was fleet as the Cábri [80] And the tall, tawny chieftain looked on, approving the boast of the mother.
Who acts: wife, son, mother · What happens: bring, stake, boast, be, look on, approve · To what, where: handsomest robe, tee, last robe, tall tawny chieftain, boast
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 (wife, son, mother), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 wife | det |
| 2 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 Brought | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 kuté | case |
| 4 | tall | tall | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 kuté | amod |
| 5 | Wazi | Wazi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 kuté | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 Wazi | punct |
| 7 | kuté | kuté | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 wife | nmod |
| 8 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 10 mother | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 mother | det |
| 10 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 kuté | appos |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 Tamdóka | case |
| 12 | boastful | boastful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 Tamdóka | amod |
| 13 | Tamdóka | Tamdóka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 mother | nmod |
| 14 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 2 wife | punct |
| 15 | Brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 robe | nmod:poss |
| 17 | handsomest | handsome | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 18 robe | amod |
| 18 | robe | robe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 Brought | obj |
| 19 | from | from | ADP | _ | 21 tee | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 tee | det |
| 21 | tee | tee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 Brought | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 vaunting | punct |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 vaunting | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 vaunting | det |
| 25 | vaunting | vaunting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 tee | appos |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 proclamation | cc |
| 27 | loud | loud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 proclamation | amod |
| 28 | proclamation | proclamation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 vaunting | conj |
| 29 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 32 stake | punct |
| 30 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 stake | nsubj |
| 31 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 32 stake | aux |
| 32 | stake | stake | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 Brought | conj |
| 33 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 robe | nmod:poss |
| 34 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 robe | amod |
| 35 | robe | robe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 stake | obj |
| 36 | on | on | ADP | _ | 38 son | case |
| 37 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 son | nmod:poss |
| 38 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 stake | obl |
| 39 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 42 boasted | nsubj |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 boasted | punct |
| 41 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 boasted | nsubj |
| 42 | boasted | boast | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 son | acl:relcl |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 fleet | punct |
| 44 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 45 fleet | cop |
| 45 | fleet | fleet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 stake | conj |
| 46 | as | as | ADP | _ | 48 Cábri | case |
| 47 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 48 Cábri | det |
| 48 | Cábri | Cábri | PROPN | Number=Sing | 45 fleet | obl |
| 49 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 50 80 | punct |
| 50 | 80 | 80 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 48 Cábri | appos |
| 51 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 50 80 | punct |
| 52 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 57 chieftain | cc |
| 53 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 57 chieftain | det |
| 54 | tall | tall | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 57 chieftain | amod |
| 55 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 54 tall | punct |
| 56 | tawny | tawny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 57 chieftain | amod |
| 57 | chieftain | chieftain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 Cábri | conj |
| 58 | looked | look | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 57 chieftain | acl |
| 59 | on | on | ADP | _ | 58 looked | compound:prt |
| 60 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 61 approving | punct |
| 61 | approving | approve | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 32 stake | advcl |
| 62 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 63 boast | det |
| 63 | boast | boast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 61 approving | obj |
| 64 | of | of | ADP | _ | 66 mother | case |
| 65 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 66 mother | det |
| 66 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 63 boast | nmod |
| 67 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 Brought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | past | a wife of tall Wazi kuté | wife's handsomest robe | the tee | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent robe=Theme from tee=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | stake | would | wife | wife's last robe | on wife's son | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent robe=Patient | |||
| 3 | boast speech: other | past | wife's son | wife nsubj | vn complain-37.8 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | is | past | wife not said here | as the Cábri and the tall tawny chieftain; fleet property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | look on | participle | the tall tawny chieftain not said here | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 6 | approve | gerund | wife not said here | the boast of the mother | vn allow-64.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boast=Beneficiary | ||||
| 7 | boast | the mother | nom boast «communication 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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