Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 5, sentence 25
The son of Chief Wazí-kuté guides the White Chief afar on his journey; Nor long on the Tonka Medé [b] --on the breast of the blue, bounding billows-- Shall the bark of the Frenchman delay, but his pathway shall kindle behind him."
Who acts: son, pathway, chief · What happens: guide, bound, kindle, journey · To what, where: Chief afar, journey
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 (son, pathway, chief), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 son | det |
| 2 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 guides | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 Chief | case |
| 4 | Chief | Chief | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 son | nmod |
| 5 | Wazí | Wazí | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Chief | flat |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 kuté | punct |
| 7 | kuté | kuté | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 Chief | appos |
| 8 | guides | guide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 afar | det |
| 10 | White | White | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Chief | compound |
| 11 | Chief | Chief | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 afar | compound |
| 12 | afar | afar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 guides | obj |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 journey | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 journey | nmod:poss |
| 15 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 afar | nmod |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 long | punct |
| 17 | Nor | Nor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 long | nsubj |
| 18 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 8 guides | advmod |
| 19 | on | on | ADP | _ | 22 Medé | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 Medé | det |
| 21 | Tonka | Tonka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Medé | compound |
| 22 | Medé | Medé | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 long | obl |
| 23 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 24 b | punct |
| 24 | b | b | NUM | _ | 22 Medé | flat |
| 25 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 24 b | punct |
| 26 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 29 breast | punct |
| 27 | on | on | ADP | _ | 29 breast | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 breast | det |
| 29 | breast | breast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 guides | obl |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 billows | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 billows | det |
| 32 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 billows | amod |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 bounding | punct |
| 34 | bounding | bound | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 35 billows | amod |
| 35 | billows | billow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 breast | nmod |
| 36 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 37 Shall | punct |
| 37 | Shall | Shall | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 billows | appos |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 bark | det |
| 39 | bark | bark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 Shall | appos |
| 40 | of | of | ADP | _ | 43 delay | case |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 delay | det |
| 42 | Frenchman | frenchman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 delay | compound |
| 43 | delay | delay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 bark | nmod |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 49 kindle | punct |
| 45 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 49 kindle | cc |
| 46 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 47 pathway | nmod:poss |
| 47 | pathway | pathway | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 kindle | nsubj |
| 48 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 49 kindle | aux |
| 49 | kindle | kindle | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 guides | conj |
| 50 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 51 him | case |
| 51 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 49 kindle | obl |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 guides | punct |
| 53 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 guides | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | guide | present | the son of Chief | the Chief afar | chief's journey | on the breast of the blue bounding billows; long property | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent afar=Theme on breast=Destination | ||
| 2 | bound | gerund | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | kindle | shall | chief's pathway | behind chief | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 4 | journey | chief | nom journey «act transitive»: poss=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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