Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 4, sentence 60
And away with a whoop and a bound, springs the eager, exulting Tamdóka.
What happens: spring, exult · To what, where: eager, Tamdóka
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: 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 springs | cc |
| 2 | away | away | ADV | _ | 10 springs | advmod |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 whoop | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 whoop | det |
| 5 | whoop | whoop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 springs | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 bound | cc |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 bound | det |
| 8 | bound | bound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 whoop | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 whoop | punct |
| 10 | springs | spring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 eager | det |
| 12 | eager | eager | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 springs | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 exulting | punct |
| 14 | exulting | exult | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 springs | advcl |
| 15 | Tamdóka | Tamdóka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 exulting | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 springs | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spring | present | the eager | with a whoop and a bound; away property | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location eager=Theme | ||||
| 2 | exult | gerund | Tamdóka | tree rules |
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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