Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 5, sentence 53
Thrice the Chief puffed the red pipe of peace, ere it passed to the lips of the Frenchman.
Who acts: Thrice · What happens: puff, ere, pass · To what, where: red pipe, pipe, lips
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 (Thrice), 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 | Thrice | Thrice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 puffed | nsubj |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Chief | det |
| 3 | Chief | Chief | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Thrice | appos |
| 4 | puffed | puff | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 pipe | det |
| 6 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 pipe | amod |
| 7 | pipe | pipe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 puffed | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 peace | case |
| 9 | peace | peace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 pipe | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 ere | punct |
| 11 | ere | ere | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 puffed | conj |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 ere | obj |
| 13 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 ere | xcomp |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 lips | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 lips | det |
| 16 | lips | lip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 passed | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 Frenchman | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Frenchman | det |
| 19 | Frenchman | frenchman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 lips | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 puffed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | puff | past | Thrice | the red pipe of peace | vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location pipe=Source | ||||
| 2 | ere | past | Thrice not said here | pipe | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | pass | participle | Thrice not said here | the lips of the Frenchman | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to lip=Initial_Location |
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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