Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 6, sentence 74
What hunter will bring me the deer, or the flesh of the bear or the bison?
Who acts: hunter · What happens: bring · To what, where: me
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 (hunter), 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 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 bring | obj |
| 2 | hunter | hunter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bring | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 bring | aux |
| 4 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 bring | obj |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 deer | det |
| 7 | deer | deer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bring | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 flesh | punct |
| 9 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 11 flesh | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 flesh | det |
| 11 | flesh | flesh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bring | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 bear | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 bear | det |
| 14 | bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 flesh | nmod |
| 15 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 17 bison | cc |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 bison | det |
| 17 | bison | bison | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 bear | conj |
| 18 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 bring | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | future | hunter | me | the flesh of the bear or the bison obl; What obj; the deer obj | tree rules |
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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