Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 4, sentence 94
And then at the dance and the feast sang the song of Unktéhee in chorus:
Who acts: Unktéhee · What happens: sing · To what, where: song, dance
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 (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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 sang | cc |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 sang | advmod |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 dance | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 dance | det |
| 5 | dance | dance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sang | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 feast | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 feast | det |
| 8 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 dance | conj |
| 9 | sang | sing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 song | det |
| 11 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sang | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 Unktéhee | case |
| 13 | Unktéhee | Unktéhee | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 song | nmod |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 chorus | case |
| 15 | chorus | chorus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sang | obl |
| 16 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 sang | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sing speech: express | past | the song of Unktéhee | the dance and the feast | then | in chorus | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location song=Theme | ||
| 2 | sing | Unktéhee | nom song «communication intransitive»: of=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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