Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 5, sentence 42
[a] i.e. a fire arm which the Dakotas compare to the roar of the wings of the Thunder-bird and the fiery arrows he shoots.
Who acts: Dakotas, bird, wings · What happens: compare, shoot, roar · To what, where: fire arm, fiery arrows
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 (Dakotas, bird, wings), 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 | _ | 4 i.e. | punct |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 i.e. | det |
| 3 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 4 i.e. | punct |
| 4 | i.e. | i.e. | ADV | _ | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 arm | det |
| 6 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 arm | compound |
| 7 | arm | arm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 i.e. | obj |
| 8 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 compare | obj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Dakotas | det |
| 10 | Dakotas | dakota | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 compare | nsubj |
| 11 | compare | compare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 arm | acl:relcl |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 roar | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 roar | det |
| 14 | roar | roar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 compare | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 wings | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 wings | det |
| 17 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 roar | nmod |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 bird | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 bird | det |
| 20 | Thunder | Thunder | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 bird | compound |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 Thunder | punct |
| 22 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 wings | nmod |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 arrows | cc |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 arrows | det |
| 25 | fiery | fiery | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 arrows | amod |
| 26 | arrows | arrow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 bird | conj |
| 27 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 shoots | nsubj |
| 28 | shoots | shoot | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 arrows | acl:relcl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 i.e. | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | compare | present | the Dakotas | a fire arm | to the roar of the wings of the Thunder bird and the fiery arrows | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Patient | |||
| 2 | shoot | present | bird | the fiery arrows not said here | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arrow=Theme | ||||
| 4 | roar | the wings of the Thunder bird and the fiery arrows | nom roar «event intransitive»: of=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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