Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 6, sentence 97
The Chief will return, he is bold, and he carries the fire of Wakínyan; To our people the truth will be told, and Tamdóka will hide like a coward."
Who acts: Chief, heart, Tamdóka · What happens: return, be, carry, tell, hide, fire · To what, where: fire, truth, people, Wakínyan · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Chief, heart, Tamdóka), 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 | 2 Chief | det |
| 2 | Chief | Chief | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 return | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 return | aux |
| 4 | return | return | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 bold | punct |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 bold | nsubj |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 bold | cop |
| 8 | bold | bold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 return | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 carries | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 carries | cc |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 carries | nsubj |
| 12 | carries | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 return | advcl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 fire | det |
| 14 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 carries | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 Wakínyan | case |
| 16 | Wakínyan | Wakínyan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 fire | nmod |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 told | punct |
| 18 | To | to | ADP | _ | 20 people | case |
| 19 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 people | nmod:poss |
| 20 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 told | obl |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 truth | det |
| 22 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 told | nsubj:pass |
| 23 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 told | aux |
| 24 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 25 told | aux:pass |
| 25 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 return | parataxis |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 hide | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 hide | cc |
| 28 | Tamdóka | Tamdóka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 hide | nsubj |
| 29 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 hide | aux |
| 30 | hide | hide | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 told | conj |
| 31 | like | like | ADP | _ | 33 coward | case |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 coward | det |
| 33 | coward | coward | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 hide | obl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 return | punct |
| 35 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 return | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | future | the Chief | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is | present | heart | bold property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | carry | present | heart | the fire of Wakínyan | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Theme | ||||
| 4 | tell speech: assert | future · passive | the truth | our people | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Topic to people=Recipient | ||||
| 5 | hide | future | Tamdóka | like a coward | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | fire | Wakínyan | nom fire «event transitive»: of=patient |
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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