Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 5, sentence 87
Now they bend to their oars in the race --the ten tawny braves of Tamdóka; And hard on their heels in the chase ply the six stalwart oars of the Frenchmen.
Who acts: boatmen · What happens: bend, ply · To what, where: race, six stalwart oars
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 (boatmen), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 bend | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 bend | nsubj |
| 3 | bend | bend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 oars | case |
| 5 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 oars | nmod:poss |
| 6 | oars | oar | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 bend | obl |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 race | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 race | det |
| 9 | race | race | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bend | obl |
| 10 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 14 braves | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 braves | det |
| 12 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 braves | nummod |
| 13 | tawny | tawny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 braves | amod |
| 14 | braves | brave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 race | appos |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 Tamdóka | case |
| 16 | Tamdóka | Tamdóka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 braves | nmod |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 hard | punct |
| 18 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 hard | cc |
| 19 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 bend | conj |
| 20 | on | on | ADP | _ | 22 heels | case |
| 21 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 heels | nmod:poss |
| 22 | heels | heel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 hard | obl |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 chase | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 chase | det |
| 25 | chase | chase | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 hard | obl |
| 26 | ply | ply | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 hard | csubj |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 oars | det |
| 28 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 30 oars | nummod |
| 29 | stalwart | stalwart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 oars | compound |
| 30 | oars | oar | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 ply | obj |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 Frenchmen | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 Frenchmen | det |
| 33 | Frenchmen | Frenchman | PROPN | Number=Plur | 30 oars | nmod |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 bend | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bend | present | boatmen = boatman | the race | now | to boatmen's oars | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in race=Location | ||
| 2 | ply | infinitive | the six stalwart oars of the Frenchmen | vn equip-13.4.2 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP»: agent=Agent oar=Recipient |
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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