Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 6, sentence 44
[84] Where the Black Robes, the brave shepherds, fed their wild sheep on the isle Wau-ga-bá-mé.
Who acts: Black Robes · What happens: feed · To what, where: 84, isle
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 (Black Robes), 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 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 2 84 | punct |
| 2 | 84 | 84 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 13 fed | obl |
| 3 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 2 84 | punct |
| 4 | Where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 13 fed | advmod |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Robes | det |
| 6 | Black | Black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 Robes | amod |
| 7 | Robes | Robe | PROPN | Number=Plur | 13 fed | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 shepherds | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 shepherds | det |
| 10 | brave | brave | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 shepherds | amod |
| 11 | shepherds | shepherd | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 Robes | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Robes | punct |
| 13 | fed | feed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 sheep | nmod:poss |
| 15 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 sheep | amod |
| 16 | sheep | sheep | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 fed | obj |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 isle | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 isle | det |
| 19 | isle | isle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 fed | obl |
| 20 | Wau | Wau | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 isle | appos |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 Wau | punct |
| 22 | ga | ga | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 bá | compound |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 ga | punct |
| 24 | bá | bá | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 mé | compound |
| 25 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 26 mé | punct |
| 26 | mé | mé | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 isle | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 fed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feed | past | the Black Robes and the brave shepherds | 84 | the isle and bá mé | robes's wild sheep obj | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sheep=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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