Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 5, sentence 85
Up the still flowing Wákpa Wakán's winding path through the groves and the meadows.
What happens: flow, wind · To what, where: path, groves
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: 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 | Up | up | ADP | _ | 4 flowing | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 flowing | det |
| 3 | still | still | ADV | _ | 4 flowing | advmod |
| 4 | flowing | flow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | Wákpa | Wákpa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Wakán | compound |
| 6 | Wakán | Wakán | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 flowing | obl |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 Wakán | case |
| 8 | winding | wind | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 flowing | conj |
| 9 | path | path | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 winding | obj |
| 10 | through | through | ADP | _ | 12 groves | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 groves | det |
| 12 | groves | grove | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 winding | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 meadows | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 meadows | det |
| 15 | meadows | meadow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 groves | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 flowing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | flow | gerund | still | 's Wákpa Wakán | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | wind | gerund | path | the groves and the meadows | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent path=Theme through grove=Trajectory |
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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