Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 6, sentence 67
The white years have broken my spear; from my bow they have taken the bow-string; But once on the trail of the deer, like a gray wolf from sunrise till sunset, By woodland and meadow and mere, ran the feet of Ta-té-psin untiring.
Who acts: white years, psin · What happens: break, take, run · To what, where: spear, bow string, bow, feet
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 (white years, psin), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 years | det |
| 2 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 years | amod |
| 3 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 broken | nsubj |
| 4 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 broken | aux |
| 5 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 spear | nmod:poss |
| 7 | spear | spear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 broken | obj |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 taken | punct |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 bow | case |
| 10 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 bow | nmod:poss |
| 11 | bow | bow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 taken | obl |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 taken | nsubj |
| 13 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 taken | aux |
| 14 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 broken | conj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 string | det |
| 16 | bow | bow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 string | compound |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 bow | punct |
| 18 | string | string | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 taken | obj |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 once | punct |
| 20 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 21 once | cc |
| 21 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 5 broken | advmod |
| 22 | on | on | ADP | _ | 24 trail | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 trail | det |
| 24 | trail | trail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 once | obl |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 deer | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 deer | det |
| 27 | deer | deer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 trail | nmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 wolf | punct |
| 29 | like | like | ADP | _ | 32 wolf | case |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 wolf | det |
| 31 | gray | gray | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 wolf | amod |
| 32 | wolf | wolf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 broken | parataxis |
| 33 | from | from | ADP | _ | 34 sunrise | case |
| 34 | sunrise | sunrise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 wolf | nmod |
| 35 | till | till | ADP | _ | 36 sunset | case |
| 36 | sunset | sunset | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 sunrise | nmod |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 woodland | punct |
| 38 | By | by | ADP | _ | 39 woodland | case |
| 39 | woodland | woodland | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 broken | parataxis |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 meadow | cc |
| 41 | meadow | meadow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 woodland | conj |
| 42 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 mere | cc |
| 43 | mere | mere | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 meadow | conj |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 ran | punct |
| 45 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 broken | parataxis |
| 46 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 47 feet | det |
| 47 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 45 ran | obj |
| 48 | of | of | ADP | _ | 54 untiring | case |
| 49 | Ta | Ta | PROPN | Number=Sing | 54 untiring | compound |
| 50 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 49 Ta | punct |
| 51 | té | té | NOUN | Number=Sing | 53 psin | compound |
| 52 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 51 té | punct |
| 53 | psin | psin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 54 untiring | compound |
| 54 | untiring | untiring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 feet | nmod |
| 55 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 broken | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | break | present · perfect | the white years | my spear | a gray wolf from sunrise till sunset parataxis; woodland and meadow and mere parataxis; once property | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer spear=Patient | |||
| 2 | take | present · perfect | psin | the bow string | my bow | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent string=Theme from bow=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | run | past | the feet of Ta psin untiring | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme foot=Trajectory |
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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