Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 4, sentence 76
Ye shall honor Unktéhee and hate Wakínyan, the Spirit of Thunder, For the power of Unktéhee is great, and he laughs at the darts of Wakínyan.
Who acts: Ye, Unktéhee · What happens: honor, hate, be, laugh · To what, where: Unktéhee, Wakínyan, darts
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 (Ye, Unktéhee), 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 | Ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 3 honor | nsubj |
| 2 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 honor | aux |
| 3 | honor | honor | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | Unktéhee | Unktéhee | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 honor | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 hate | cc |
| 6 | hate | hate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 honor | conj |
| 7 | Wakínyan | Wakínyan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 hate | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 Spirit | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Spirit | det |
| 10 | Spirit | Spirit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Wakínyan | appos |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 Thunder | case |
| 12 | Thunder | Thunder | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Spirit | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 power | punct |
| 14 | For | for | ADP | _ | 16 power | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 power | det |
| 16 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 hate | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 great | case |
| 18 | Unktéhee | Unktéhee | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 great | nsubj |
| 19 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 great | cop |
| 20 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 power | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 laughs | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 laughs | cc |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 laughs | nsubj |
| 24 | laughs | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 honor | parataxis |
| 25 | at | at | ADP | _ | 27 darts | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 darts | det |
| 27 | darts | dart | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 laughs | obl |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 Wakínyan | case |
| 29 | Wakínyan | Wakínyan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 darts | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 honor | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | honor | shall | Ye | Unktéhee | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent unktéhee=Theme | ||||
| 2 | hate | infinitive | Ye not said here | Wakínyan | for the power | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer wakínyan=Stimulus for power=Attribute | |||
| 3 | is | present | Unktéhee | great property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | laugh | present | Unktéhee | the darts of Wakínyan | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=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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