Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 5, sentence 37
"Winona, fear not," said Duluth, "for I carry the fire of Wakínyan, [a] And strong is the arm of my youth, and stout are the hearts of my warriors; But Winona has spoken the truth, and the heart of the White Chief is thankful.
Who acts: Winona, heart · What happens: say, carry, be, speak, fire · To what, where: fire, strong arm, ] hearts, Winona, Wakínyan · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Winona, heart), 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 Winona | punct |
| 2 | Winona | Winona | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 fear | punct |
| 4 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Winona | appos |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 fear | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Winona | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Winona | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | Duluth | Duluth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 carry | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 carry | punct |
| 12 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 14 carry | mark |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 carry | nsubj |
| 14 | carry | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 Duluth | conj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 fire | det |
| 16 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 carry | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 Wakínyan | case |
| 18 | Wakínyan | Wakínyan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 fire | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 hearts | punct |
| 20 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 36 hearts | punct |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 36 hearts | det |
| 22 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 36 hearts | amod |
| 23 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 arm | cc |
| 24 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 arm | amod |
| 25 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 arm | cop |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 arm | det |
| 27 | arm | arm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 ] | conj |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 youth | case |
| 29 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 youth | nmod:poss |
| 30 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 arm | nmod |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 stout | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 stout | cc |
| 33 | stout | stout | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 youth | conj |
| 34 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 36 hearts | cop |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 hearts | det |
| 36 | hearts | heart | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 carry | obl |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 39 warriors | case |
| 38 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 39 warriors | nmod:poss |
| 39 | warriors | warrior | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 hearts | nmod |
| 40 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 44 spoken | punct |
| 41 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 44 spoken | cc |
| 42 | Winona | Winona | PROPN | Number=Sing | 44 spoken | nsubj:pass |
| 43 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 44 spoken | aux |
| 44 | spoken | speak | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 carry | parataxis |
| 45 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 truth | det |
| 46 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 spoken | obj |
| 47 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 56 thankful | punct |
| 48 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 56 thankful | cc |
| 49 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 50 heart | det |
| 50 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 56 thankful | nsubj |
| 51 | of | of | ADP | _ | 54 Chief | case |
| 52 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 54 Chief | det |
| 53 | White | White | PROPN | Number=Sing | 54 Chief | compound |
| 54 | Chief | Chief | PROPN | Number=Sing | 50 heart | nmod |
| 55 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 56 thankful | cop |
| 56 | thankful | thankful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 spoken | conj |
| 57 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Winona | Duluth nsubj | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | carry in a quote | present | Winona | the fire of Wakínyan | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | the strong arm | of my youth | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is a in a quote | present | a ] hearts | of my warriors | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | speak speech: other in a quote | present · perfect · passive | Winona | the truth obj | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | is in a quote | present | the heart of the White Chief | thankful property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | fire in a quote | Wakínyan | nom fire «event transitive»: 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8122/12/37/