Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 7, sentence 121
[c] There the fleet hunters followed the deer, and the thorny _pahin_ [d] for the women.
Who acts: fleet hunters · What happens: follow · To what, where: c
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 (fleet 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 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 2 c | punct |
| 2 | c | c | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 followed | obl |
| 3 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 2 c | punct |
| 4 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 8 followed | expl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 hunters | det |
| 6 | fleet | fleet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 hunters | compound |
| 7 | hunters | hunter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 followed | nsubj |
| 8 | followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 deer | det |
| 10 | deer | deer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 followed | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 pahin | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 pahin | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 pahin | det |
| 14 | thorny | thorny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 pahin | amod |
| 15 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 14 thorny | punct |
| 16 | pahin | pahin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 followed | obl |
| 17 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 16 pahin | punct |
| 18 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 19 d | punct |
| 19 | d | D | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 pahin | appos |
| 20 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 19 d | punct |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 women | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 women | det |
| 23 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 followed | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 followed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | past | the fleet hunters | c | there | for the women; the thorny pahin obl; the deer obj | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent deer=Theme for woman=Attribute |
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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