Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 4, sentence 93
All the night in the teepee they sang, and they danced to the mighty Unktéhee, While the loud-braying Chán-che-ga rang and the shrill-piping flute and the rattle, Till Anpétuwee [70] rose in the east --from the couch of the blushing Han-nân-na.
Who acts: children, Chán, piping flute · What happens: sing, dance, bray, ring, pipe, rise · To what, where: east, Han
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 (children, Chán, piping flute), 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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 night | det:predet |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 night | det |
| 3 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sang | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 teepee | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 teepee | det |
| 6 | teepee | teepee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 night | nmod |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 sang | nsubj |
| 8 | sang | sing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 danced | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 danced | cc |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 danced | nsubj |
| 12 | danced | dance | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 sang | conj |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 Unktéhee | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Unktéhee | det |
| 15 | mighty | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 Unktéhee | amod |
| 16 | Unktéhee | Unktéhee | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 danced | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 loud | punct |
| 18 | While | while | SCONJ | _ | 20 loud | mark |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 loud | det |
| 20 | loud | loud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 danced | conj |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 loud | punct |
| 22 | braying | bray | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 loud | advcl |
| 23 | Chán | Chán | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 rang | nsubj |
| 24 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 23 Chán | punct |
| 25 | che | che | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 Chán | list |
| 26 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 27 ga | punct |
| 27 | ga | ga | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 Chán | list |
| 28 | rang | ring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 braying | ccomp |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 rose | cc |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 flute | det |
| 31 | shrill | shrill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 piping | amod |
| 32 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 31 shrill | punct |
| 33 | piping | pipe | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 34 flute | amod |
| 34 | flute | flute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 rose | nsubj |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 rattle | cc |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 rattle | det |
| 37 | rattle | rattle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 flute | conj |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 Anpétuwee | punct |
| 39 | Till | till | ADP | _ | 40 Anpétuwee | case |
| 40 | Anpétuwee | Anpétuwee | PROPN | Number=Sing | 44 rose | nsubj |
| 41 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 42 70 | punct |
| 42 | 70 | 70 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 40 Anpétuwee | appos |
| 43 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 42 70 | punct |
| 44 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 rang | conj |
| 45 | in | in | ADP | _ | 47 east | case |
| 46 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 47 east | det |
| 47 | east | east | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 rose | obl |
| 48 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 51 couch | punct |
| 49 | from | from | ADP | _ | 51 couch | case |
| 50 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 51 couch | det |
| 51 | couch | couch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 rose | obl |
| 52 | of | of | ADP | _ | 59 na | case |
| 53 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 59 na | det |
| 54 | blushing | blush | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 59 na | csubj |
| 55 | Han | Han | PROPN | Number=Sing | 54 blushing | obj |
| 56 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 55 Han | punct |
| 57 | nân | nân | NOUN | Number=Sing | 59 na | compound |
| 58 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 57 nân | punct |
| 59 | na | na | NOUN | Number=Sing | 51 couch | nmod |
| 60 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 sang | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sing speech: express | past | children = child | night | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | dance | past | children = child | to the mighty Unktéhee | vn waltz-51.5 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | bray | gerund | children = child not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | ring | past | Chán che ga | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location | |||||
| 5 | pipe | gerund | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 6 | rise | past | the piping flute and the rattle | the east | from the couch of the nân na; Anpétuwee nsubj | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in east=Location | |||
| 7 | blush | gerund | Han | 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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