Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 6, sentence 88
The wild-rice is gathered, the meat of the bison is stored in the teepee; Till the Coon-Moon [71] enough and to spare; and if then the white warrior return not, Winona will follow the bear, and the coon, to their dens in the forest.
Who acts: Winona · What happens: gather, store, spare, not follow · To what, where: wild rice, meat, teepee, bear, dens
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 (Winona), 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 | 4 rice | det |
| 2 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 rice | amod |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 wild | punct |
| 4 | rice | rice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 gathered | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 gathered | aux:pass |
| 6 | gathered | gather | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 stored | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 meat | det |
| 9 | meat | meat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 stored | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 bison | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 bison | det |
| 12 | bison | bison | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 meat | nmod |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 stored | aux:pass |
| 14 | stored | store | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 gathered | conj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 teepee | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 teepee | det |
| 17 | teepee | teepee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 stored | obl |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 27 enough | punct |
| 19 | Till | till | ADP | _ | 23 Moon | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 Moon | det |
| 21 | Coon | Coon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 Moon | compound |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 Coon | punct |
| 23 | Moon | Moon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 enough | obl |
| 24 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 25 71 | punct |
| 25 | 71 | 71 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 27 enough | nsubj |
| 26 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 25 71 | punct |
| 27 | enough | enough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 gathered | parataxis |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 spare | cc |
| 29 | to | to | PART | _ | 30 spare | mark |
| 30 | spare | spare | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 enough | conj |
| 31 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 38 return | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 return | cc |
| 33 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 34 then | mark |
| 34 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 38 return | obl |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 return | det |
| 36 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 return | amod |
| 37 | warrior | warrior | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 return | compound |
| 38 | return | return | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 gathered | parataxis |
| 39 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 43 follow | advmod |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 not | punct |
| 41 | Winona | Winona | PROPN | Number=Sing | 43 follow | nsubj |
| 42 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 43 follow | aux |
| 43 | follow | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 38 return | acl:relcl |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 bear | det |
| 45 | bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 follow | obj |
| 46 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 49 coon | punct |
| 47 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 49 coon | cc |
| 48 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 49 coon | det |
| 49 | coon | coon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 bear | conj |
| 50 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 53 dens | punct |
| 51 | to | to | ADP | _ | 53 dens | case |
| 52 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 53 dens | nmod:poss |
| 53 | dens | den | NOUN | Number=Plur | 43 follow | obl |
| 54 | in | in | ADP | _ | 56 forest | case |
| 55 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 56 forest | det |
| 56 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 53 dens | nmod |
| 57 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 gathered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gather | present · passive | the wild rice | the white warrior return parataxis | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | store | present · passive | the meat of the bison | the teepee | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme in teepee=Location | ||||
| 3 | spare | to-infinitive | vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | not follow | future | Winona | the bear and the coon | Rice's dens in the forest | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent bear=Theme to den=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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