Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 4, sentence 9
From the red stake that stood by his tee, on the southerly side of the Ha-ha To a stake at the Lake of the Loons [79] --a league and return--was the distance.
Who acts: red stake · What happens: stand, be · To what, where: southerly side, distance, red stake
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 (red stake), 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 | From | from | ADP | _ | 4 stake | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 stake | det |
| 3 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 stake | amod |
| 4 | stake | stake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 distance | obl |
| 5 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 stood | nsubj |
| 6 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 stake | acl:relcl |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 tee | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 tee | nmod:poss |
| 9 | tee | tee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 stood | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 side | punct |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 side | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 side | det |
| 13 | southerly | southerly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 side | amod |
| 14 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 stood | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 ha | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 ha | det |
| 17 | Ha | Ha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 ha | compound |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 Ha | punct |
| 19 | ha | ha | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 side | nmod |
| 20 | To | to | ADP | _ | 22 stake | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 stake | det |
| 22 | stake | stake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 stood | obl |
| 23 | at | at | ADP | _ | 25 Lake | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 Lake | det |
| 25 | Lake | Lake | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 stood | obl |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 Loons | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 Loons | det |
| 28 | Loons | loon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 Lake | nmod |
| 29 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 30 79 | punct |
| 30 | 79 | 79 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 28 Loons | appos |
| 31 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 30 79 | punct |
| 32 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 34 league | punct |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 league | det |
| 34 | league | league | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 Lake | appos |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 return | cc |
| 36 | return | return | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 league | conj |
| 37 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 4 stake | punct |
| 38 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 40 distance | cop |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 distance | det |
| 40 | distance | distance | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 40 distance | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | the red stake | the southerly side of the Ha ha | by Itancan's tee; to a stake; at the Lake of the Loons | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by tee=Location | |||
| 2 | is a | past | the distance | the red stake | 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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