Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 5, sentence 33
[a] A son of Unktéhee is he, --the Chief of the crafty magicians; They have plotted thy death; I foresee, and thy trail, it is red in the forest; Beware of Tamdóka,--beware.
Who acts: son, magicians, I, trail, thy · What happens: be, plot, foresee, beware, die · To what, where: Chief, death, forest
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, magicians, I, trail), 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 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 2 a | punct |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 son | det |
| 3 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 2 a | punct |
| 4 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 son | det |
| 5 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 Chief | nsubj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 Unktéhee | case |
| 7 | Unktéhee | Unktéhee | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 son | nmod |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 Chief | cop |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 Chief | nsubj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 Chief | punct |
| 11 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 13 Chief | punct |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Chief | det |
| 13 | Chief | Chief | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 plotted | parataxis |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 magicians | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 magicians | det |
| 16 | crafty | crafty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 magicians | amod |
| 17 | magicians | magician | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 Chief | nmod |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 plotted | punct |
| 19 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 plotted | nsubj |
| 20 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 plotted | aux |
| 21 | plotted | plot | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 22 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 23 death | nmod:poss |
| 23 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 plotted | obj |
| 24 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 foresee | punct |
| 25 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 foresee | nsubj |
| 26 | foresee | foresee | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 plotted | conj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 red | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 red | cc |
| 29 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 30 trail | nmod:poss |
| 30 | trail | trail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 red | nsubj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 trail | punct |
| 32 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 red | nsubj |
| 33 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 red | cop |
| 34 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 foresee | conj |
| 35 | in | in | ADP | _ | 37 forest | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 forest | det |
| 37 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 red | obl |
| 38 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 39 Beware | punct |
| 39 | Beware | beware | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 plotted | conj |
| 40 | of | of | ADP | _ | 41 Tamdóka | case |
| 41 | Tamdóka | Tamdóka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 39 Beware | obl |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 beware | punct |
| 43 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 44 beware | punct |
| 44 | beware | beware | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 39 Beware | conj |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 plotted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | a son of Unktéhee | the Chief | of the crafty magicians | tree rules | |||
| 2 | plot | present · perfect | magicians = magician | thy death | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent death=Theme | ||||
| 3 | foresee | present | I | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is | present | thy trail | the forest | red property | tree rules | |||
| 5 | beware | infinitive | magicians = magician not said here | of Tamdóka | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 6 | beware | infinitive | magicians = magician not said here | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 7 | die | thy | nom death «event intransitive»: 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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