Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 5, sentence 101
Yet skilled in the arts and the wiles of the cunning and crafty Algonkins, They cover their hearts with their smiles, and hide their suspicions of evil.
Who acts: Algonkins · What happens: skill, cover, hide, smile, suspect · To what, where: arts, hearts, suspicions, evil
This is a sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Feast of the Virgins., part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Algonkins), 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 | Yet | yet | CCONJ | _ | 2 skilled | cc |
| 2 | skilled | skill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 arts | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 arts | det |
| 5 | arts | art | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 skilled | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 wiles | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 wiles | det |
| 8 | wiles | wile | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 arts | conj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 cunning | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 cunning | det |
| 11 | cunning | cunning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 wiles | nmod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 Algonkins | cc |
| 13 | crafty | crafty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 Algonkins | amod |
| 14 | Algonkins | algonkin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 cunning | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 cover | punct |
| 16 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 cover | nsubj |
| 17 | cover | cover | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 skilled | advcl |
| 18 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 hearts | nmod:poss |
| 19 | hearts | heart | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 cover | obj |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 smiles | case |
| 21 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 smiles | nmod:poss |
| 22 | smiles | smile | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 cover | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 hide | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 hide | cc |
| 25 | hide | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 cover | conj |
| 26 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 suspicions | nmod:poss |
| 27 | suspicions | suspicion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 hide | obj |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 evil | case |
| 29 | evil | evil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 suspicions | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 skilled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | skill | participle | the arts and the wiles of the cunning and crafty Algonkins | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | cover | present | Algonkins = algonkin | Algonkins's hearts | with Algonkins's smiles | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent heart=Destination with smile=Theme | |||
| 3 | hide | present | Algonkins = algonkin not said here | Algonkins's suspicions of evil | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent suspicion=Patient | ||||
| 4 | smile | Algonkins = algonkin | nom smile «communication transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 5 | suspect | Algonkins = algonkin | evil | nom suspicion «cognition transitive»: poss=agent of=patient |
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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