Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 6, sentence 60
From his path in the skies the red sun looks down on Kathága, Asleep in the valley it lies, for the swift hunters follow the bison.
Who acts: red sun, valley, swift hunters · What happens: look down, lie, follow · To what, where: valley, bison
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 (red sun, valley, swift hunters), 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 | From | from | ADP | _ | 3 path | case |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 path | nmod:poss |
| 3 | path | path | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 looks | obl |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 skies | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 skies | det |
| 6 | skies | sky | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 path | nmod |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 sun | det |
| 8 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 sun | amod |
| 9 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 looks | nsubj |
| 10 | looks | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | down | down | ADV | _ | 10 looks | advmod |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 Kathága | case |
| 13 | Kathága | Kathága | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 looks | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 Asleep | punct |
| 15 | Asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 looks | advcl |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 valley | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 valley | det |
| 18 | valley | valley | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 Asleep | obl |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 lies | nsubj |
| 20 | lies | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 valley | acl:relcl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 follow | punct |
| 22 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 26 follow | mark |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 hunters | det |
| 24 | swift | swift | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 hunters | compound |
| 25 | hunters | hunter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 follow | nsubj |
| 26 | follow | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 looks | conj |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 bison | det |
| 28 | bison | bison | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 follow | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 looks | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look down | present | the red sun | on Kathága; from Michabo's path in the skies; down property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent from path=Theme | ||||
| 2 | lie | present | valley | the valley not said here | vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location valley=Theme | ||||
| 3 | follow | present | the swift hunters | the bison | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bison=Theme |
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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