Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 4, sentence 56
Far away o'er the prairie they fly, and still in the lead is Tamdóka, But the feet of his rival are nigh, and slowly he gains on the hunter.
Who acts: tops, lead, feet, Tamdóka · What happens: fly, be, gain · To what, where: Tamdóka, hunter
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 (tops, lead, feet, 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 | Far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 2 away | advmod |
| 2 | away | away | ADV | _ | 7 fly | advmod |
| 3 | o'er | o'er | ADP | _ | 5 prairie | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 prairie | det |
| 5 | prairie | prairie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 fly | obl |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 fly | nsubj |
| 7 | fly | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 Tamdóka | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 Tamdóka | cc |
| 10 | still | still | ADV | _ | 13 lead | advmod |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 lead | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 lead | det |
| 13 | lead | lead | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 Tamdóka | nsubj |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 Tamdóka | cop |
| 15 | Tamdóka | Tamdóka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 fly | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 nigh | punct |
| 17 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 24 nigh | cc |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 feet | det |
| 19 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 nigh | nsubj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 rival | case |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 rival | nmod:poss |
| 22 | rival | rival | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 feet | nmod |
| 23 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 nigh | cop |
| 24 | nigh | nigh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 fly | conj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 gains | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 gains | cc |
| 27 | slowly | slowly | ADV | _ | 29 gains | advmod |
| 28 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 gains | nsubj |
| 29 | gains | gain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 fly | conj |
| 30 | on | on | ADP | _ | 32 hunter | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 hunter | det |
| 32 | hunter | hunter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 gains | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 fly | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly | present | tops = top | o'er the prairie; away property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | the lead | Tamdóka | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is | present | the feet of Tamdóka's rival | nigh property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | gain | present | Tamdóka | the hunter | slowly property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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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