Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 7, sentence 125
[d] Pah hin--the porcupine--the quill of which are greatly prized for ornamental work.
What happens: prize · To what, where: d Pah hin
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: 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 | _ | 5 hin | punct |
| 2 | d | D | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 hin | compound |
| 3 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 2 d | punct |
| 4 | Pah | pah | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 hin | compound |
| 5 | hin | hin | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 8 porcupine | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 porcupine | det |
| 8 | porcupine | porcupine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 hin | conj |
| 9 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 11 quill | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 quill | det |
| 11 | quill | quill | NOUN | _ | 5 hin | appos |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 which | case |
| 13 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 prized | obl |
| 14 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 prized | aux:pass |
| 15 | greatly | greatly | ADV | _ | 16 prized | advmod |
| 16 | prized | prize | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 quill | acl:relcl |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 work | case |
| 18 | ornamental | ornamental | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 work | amod |
| 19 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 prized | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 hin | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | prize | present · passive | of the quill; for ornamental work; greatly property | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: for work=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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