Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 5, sentence 98
Is Tamdóka's dark face in the light of the flickering flames of the camp fire.
Who acts: camp fire · What happens: be, flicker, light, flame · To what, where: dark face, light, flickering flames
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 (camp fire), 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 | Is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 face | cop |
| 2 | Tamdóka | Tamdóka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 face | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 Tamdóka | case |
| 4 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 face | amod |
| 5 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 light | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 light | det |
| 8 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 face | nmod |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 flames | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 flames | det |
| 11 | flickering | flicker | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 flames | amod |
| 12 | flames | flame | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 light | nmod |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 fire | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 fire | det |
| 15 | camp | camp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 fire | compound |
| 16 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 flames | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 face | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Tamdóka's dark face | the light of the flickering flames of the camp fire | Tamdóka nmod:poss | tree rules | |||
| 2 | flicker | gerund | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | light | the flickering flames of the camp fire | nom light «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 4 | flame | the camp fire | nom flame «process intransitive»: of=agent |
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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