Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 5, sentence 15
For her mother sleeps long in the mound, and a step-mother rules in the teepee.
What happens: sleep · To what, where: mother rules, mound
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: 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 3 mother | case |
| 2 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 mother | nmod:poss |
| 3 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sleeps | obl |
| 4 | sleeps | sleep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 sleeps | advmod |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 mound | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 mound | det |
| 8 | mound | mound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sleeps | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 rules | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 rules | cc |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 mother | det |
| 12 | step | step | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 mother | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 step | punct |
| 14 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 rules | compound |
| 15 | rules | rule | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 sleeps | obl |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 teepee | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 teepee | det |
| 18 | teepee | teepee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 rules | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sleeps | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sleep | present | mother rules in the teepee | the mound | for Tanké's mother; long property | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in mound=Location |
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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