Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 7, sentence 11
The strong hunters crouched in their tees; by the lodge-fires the little ones shivered; And the Magic Men [b] danced to appease, in their teepee, the wrath of Wazíya; But famine and fatal disease, like phantoms, crept into the village.
Who acts: strong hunters, Magic Men · What happens: crouch, fire, shiver, dance, appease, creep · To what, where: strong hunters, tees, little ones, teepee, village
This is a sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Feast of the Virgins., part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (strong hunters, Magic Men), 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 | 3 hunters | det |
| 2 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 hunters | amod |
| 3 | hunters | hunter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 fires | nsubj |
| 4 | crouched | crouch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 hunters | acl |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 tees | case |
| 6 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 tees | nmod:poss |
| 7 | tees | tee | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 crouched | obl |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 fires | punct |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 lodge | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 lodge | det |
| 11 | lodge | lodge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 fires | obl |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 lodge | punct |
| 13 | fires | fire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 ones | det |
| 15 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 ones | amod |
| 16 | ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 fires | obj |
| 17 | shivered | shiver | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 ones | acl |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 danced | punct |
| 19 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 danced | cc |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 Men | det |
| 21 | Magic | Magic | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Men | compound |
| 22 | Men | Men | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 danced | nsubj |
| 23 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 24 b | punct |
| 24 | b | b | NUM | _ | 22 Men | flat |
| 25 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 24 b | punct |
| 26 | danced | dance | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 fires | conj |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 appease | mark |
| 28 | appease | appease | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 danced | xcomp |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 teepee | punct |
| 30 | in | in | ADP | _ | 32 teepee | case |
| 31 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 teepee | nmod:poss |
| 32 | teepee | teepee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 appease | obj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 wrath | punct |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 wrath | det |
| 35 | wrath | wrath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 teepee | appos |
| 36 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 Wazíya | case |
| 37 | Wazíya | Wazíya | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 wrath | nmod |
| 38 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 40 famine | punct |
| 39 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 40 famine | cc |
| 40 | famine | famine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 fires | parataxis |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 disease | cc |
| 42 | fatal | fatal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 disease | amod |
| 43 | disease | disease | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 famine | conj |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 phantoms | punct |
| 45 | like | like | ADP | _ | 46 phantoms | case |
| 46 | phantoms | phantom | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 famine | conj |
| 47 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 48 crept | punct |
| 48 | crept | creep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 40 famine | conj |
| 49 | into | into | ADP | _ | 51 village | case |
| 50 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 51 village | det |
| 51 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 crept | obl |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 fires | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | crouch | participle | the strong hunters not said here | hunters's tees | vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in tee=Location | ||||
| 2 | fire | present | the strong hunters | the little ones | by the lodge; famine and fatal disease and phantoms parataxis | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent one=Theme by lodge=Destination | |||
| 3 | shiver | participle | the little ones not said here | vn body_internal_states-40.6 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | dance | past | the Magic Men | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | appease | to-infinitive | the Magic Men not said here | hunters's teepee | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus teepee=Experiencer | ||||
| 6 | creep | past | the strong hunters not said here | the village | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into village=Destination |
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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