Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 6, sentence 79
A fleet-footed hunter is he, and the good spirits feather his arrows; And the cold, cruel winter will be a feast-time instead of a famine."
Who acts: footed hunter, cold cruel winter · What happens: be · To what, where: spirits feather, feast time
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 (footed hunter, cold cruel winter), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 hunter | det |
| 2 | fleet | fleet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 footed | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 fleet | punct |
| 4 | footed | footed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 hunter | amod |
| 5 | hunter | hunter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 feather | nsubj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 feather | cop |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 feather | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 feather | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 feather | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 spirits | det |
| 11 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 spirits | amod |
| 12 | spirits | spirit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 feather | compound |
| 13 | feather | feather | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 arrows | nmod:poss |
| 15 | arrows | arrow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 feather | obj |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 time | punct |
| 17 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 time | cc |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 winter | det |
| 19 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 winter | amod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 cold | punct |
| 21 | cruel | cruel | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 winter | amod |
| 22 | winter | winter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 time | nsubj |
| 23 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 time | aux |
| 24 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 28 time | cop |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 time | det |
| 26 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 time | compound |
| 27 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 26 feast | punct |
| 28 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 feather | conj |
| 29 | instead | instead | ADV | ExtPos=ADP | 32 famine | case |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 instead | fixed |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 famine | det |
| 32 | famine | famine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 time | nmod |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 feather | punct |
| 34 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 feather | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | a footed hunter | spirits feather and a feast time | tee nsubj; tee's arrows obj | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is a | future | the cold cruel winter | a feast time | instead a famine | 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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