Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 5, sentence 88
In the stern of his boat sits DuLuth, in the stern of his boat stands Tamdóka; And warily, cheerily, both urge the oars of their men to the utmost.
Who acts: both · What happens: sit, stand, urge · To what, where: DuLuth, stern, Tamdóka, 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 (both), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 stern | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 stern | det |
| 3 | stern | stern | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sits | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 boat | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 boat | nmod:poss |
| 6 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stern | nmod |
| 7 | sits | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | DuLuth | DuLuth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 sits | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 stands | punct |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 stern | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 stern | det |
| 12 | stern | stern | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 stands | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 boat | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 boat | nmod:poss |
| 15 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 stands | obl |
| 16 | stands | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 sits | conj |
| 17 | Tamdóka | Tamdóka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 stands | obj |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 warily | punct |
| 19 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 warily | cc |
| 20 | warily | warily | ADV | _ | 7 sits | advmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 cheerily | punct |
| 22 | cheerily | cheerily | ADV | _ | 20 warily | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 urge | punct |
| 24 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 25 urge | nsubj |
| 25 | urge | urge | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 sits | conj |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 oars | det |
| 27 | oars | oar | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 urge | obj |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 men | case |
| 29 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 men | nmod:poss |
| 30 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 oars | nmod |
| 31 | to | to | ADP | _ | 33 utmost | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 utmost | det |
| 33 | utmost | utmost | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 urge | obl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 sits | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | present | DuLuth | the stern of Tamdóka's boat | warily property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent duluth=Theme in stern=Location | |||
| 2 | stand | present | Tamdóka | the stern | of Tamdóka's boat | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent tamdóka=Theme in stern=Destination | |||
| 3 | urge | present | both | the oars of oars's men | to the utmost | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8122/12/88/