Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 6, sentence 89
She is strong; she can handle the spear; she can bend the stout bow of the hunter; And swift on the trail of the deer will she run o'er the snow on her snow-shoes.
Who acts: Winona · What happens: be, handle, bend, swift, run · To what, where: spear, stout bow, trail, snow shoes
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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 strong | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 strong | cop |
| 3 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 7 handle | punct |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 handle | nsubj |
| 6 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 handle | aux |
| 7 | handle | handle | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 strong | parataxis |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 spear | det |
| 9 | spear | spear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 handle | obj |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 bend | punct |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 bend | nsubj |
| 12 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 bend | aux |
| 13 | bend | bend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 handle | conj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 bow | det |
| 15 | stout | stout | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 bow | amod |
| 16 | bow | bow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 bend | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 hunter | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 hunter | det |
| 19 | hunter | hunter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 bow | nmod |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 swift | punct |
| 21 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 swift | cc |
| 22 | swift | swift | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 strong | parataxis |
| 23 | on | on | ADP | _ | 25 trail | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 trail | det |
| 25 | trail | trail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 swift | obl |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 deer | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 deer | det |
| 28 | deer | deer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 trail | nmod |
| 29 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 31 run | aux |
| 30 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 run | nsubj |
| 31 | run | run | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 swift | conj |
| 32 | o'er | o'er | ADP | _ | 34 snow | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 snow | det |
| 34 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 run | obl |
| 35 | on | on | ADP | _ | 39 shoes | case |
| 36 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 39 shoes | nmod:poss |
| 37 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 shoes | compound |
| 38 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 37 snow | punct |
| 39 | shoes | shoe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 run | obl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 strong | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Winona | strong property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | handle | can | Winona | the spear | vn hold-15.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spear=Theme | ||||
| 3 | bend | can | Winona | the stout bow of the hunter | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent bow=Material | ||||
| 4 | swift | infinitive | the trail of the deer | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | run | future | Winona | Winona's snow shoes | o'er the snow | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on shoe=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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