Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 5, sentence 49
The brave love the brave; and his son sends the Chief as a guide for his brother, By the way of the Wákpa Wakán [a] to the Chief at the Lake of the Spirits.
Who acts: son · What happens: send · To what, where: Chief
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), 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 | 3 love | det |
| 2 | brave | brave | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 love | amod |
| 3 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 brave | nsubj |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 brave | det |
| 5 | brave | brave | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 sends | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 sends | cc |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 son | nmod:poss |
| 9 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sends | nsubj |
| 10 | sends | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 brave | conj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Chief | det |
| 12 | Chief | Chief | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 sends | obj |
| 13 | as | as | ADP | _ | 15 guide | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 guide | det |
| 15 | guide | guide | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sends | obl |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 brother | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 brother | nmod:poss |
| 18 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sends | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 way | punct |
| 20 | By | by | ADP | _ | 22 way | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 way | det |
| 22 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sends | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 Wakán | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 Wakán | det |
| 25 | Wákpa | Wákpa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 Wakán | compound |
| 26 | Wakán | Wakán | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 way | nmod |
| 27 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 32 Chief | punct |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 Chief | det |
| 29 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 32 Chief | punct |
| 30 | to | to | ADP | _ | 32 Chief | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 Chief | det |
| 32 | Chief | Chief | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 Wakán | conj |
| 33 | at | at | ADP | _ | 35 Lake | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 Lake | det |
| 35 | Lake | Lake | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 way | nmod |
| 36 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 Spirits | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 Spirits | det |
| 38 | Spirits | spirit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 Lake | nmod |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 brave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | present | love's son | the Chief | as a guide; for chief's brother; by the way of the Wákpa Wakán and a Chief at the Lake of the Spirits | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chief=Theme |
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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