Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 6, sentence 20
At the feet of the brave Frenchmen, dead, lay seven swarthy Sons of Unktéhee; And there, in the midst of the slain, they found, as it gleamed in the fire light, The horn-handled knife from the Seine, where it fell from the hand of Tamdóka.
Who acts: Sons, voice · What happens: lay, find, gleam, handle, fall · To what, where: seven swarthy Sons, feet, fire light, hand · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Feast of the Virgins., part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sons, voice), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 feet | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 feet | det |
| 3 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 lay | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 Frenchmen | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Frenchmen | det |
| 6 | brave | brave | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 Frenchmen | amod |
| 7 | Frenchmen | Frenchman | PROPN | Number=Plur | 3 feet | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 dead | punct |
| 9 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 Frenchmen | amod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 feet | punct |
| 11 | lay | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 Sons | nummod |
| 13 | swarthy | swarthy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 Sons | amod |
| 14 | Sons | son | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 lay | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 Unktéhee | case |
| 16 | Unktéhee | Unktéhee | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Sons | nmod |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 there | punct |
| 18 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 there | cc |
| 19 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 lay | advmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 midst | punct |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 midst | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 midst | det |
| 23 | midst | midst | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 lay | parataxis |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 slain | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 slain | det |
| 26 | slain | slain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 midst | nmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 found | punct |
| 28 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 found | nsubj |
| 29 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 lay | conj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 gleamed | punct |
| 31 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 33 gleamed | mark |
| 32 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 gleamed | nsubj |
| 33 | gleamed | gleam | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 found | ccomp |
| 34 | in | in | ADP | _ | 37 light | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 light | det |
| 36 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 light | compound |
| 37 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 gleamed | obl |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 knife | punct |
| 39 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 knife | det |
| 40 | horn | horn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 handled | compound |
| 41 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 40 horn | punct |
| 42 | handled | handle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 43 knife | amod |
| 43 | knife | knife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 light | conj |
| 44 | from | from | ADP | _ | 46 Seine | case |
| 45 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 Seine | det |
| 46 | Seine | seine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 gleamed | obl |
| 47 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 50 fell | punct |
| 48 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 50 fell | advmod |
| 49 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 50 fell | nsubj |
| 50 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 gleamed | conj |
| 51 | from | from | ADP | _ | 53 hand | case |
| 52 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 53 hand | det |
| 53 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 fell | obl |
| 54 | of | of | ADP | _ | 55 Tamdóka | case |
| 55 | Tamdóka | Tamdóka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 53 hand | nmod |
| 56 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 lay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lay | present | seven swarthy Sons of Unktéhee | the feet of the brave Frenchmen; there | the midst of the slain parataxis | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent son=Theme at foot=Destination | |||
| 2 | find | past | Sons = son | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | gleam | past | voice | the fire light and the handled knife | from the Seine | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in light=Location | |||
| 4 | handle | participle | horn compound | vn hold-15.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | fall | past | voice | the hand of Tamdóka | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from hand=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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