Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 7, sentence 116
While the swift-footed hunters by land ran the shores for the elk and the bison.
Who acts: footed hunters · What happens: run · To what, where: shores
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 (footed hunters), 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 | While | while | SCONJ | _ | 9 ran | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 hunters | det |
| 3 | swift | swift | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 footed | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 swift | punct |
| 5 | footed | footed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 hunters | amod |
| 6 | hunters | hunter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 ran | nsubj |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 land | case |
| 8 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 hunters | nmod |
| 9 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 shores | det |
| 11 | shores | shore | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 ran | obj |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 elk | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 elk | det |
| 14 | elk | elk | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 ran | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 bison | cc |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 bison | det |
| 17 | bison | bison | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 elk | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | past | the footed hunters by land | the shores | for the elk and the bison | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent shore=Product for elk=Beneficiary |
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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