Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 7, sentence 129
The gifts to the teepee were brought --the blankets, and beads of the White men, And Winona, the orphaned, was bought by the crafty relentless Tamdóka.
Who acts: crafty relentless Tamdóka · What happens: bring, orphan, buy · To what, where: gifts, Winona
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 (crafty relentless 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 gifts | det |
| 2 | gifts | gift | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 teepee | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 teepee | det |
| 5 | teepee | teepee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 gifts | nmod |
| 6 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 brought | aux:pass |
| 7 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 10 blankets | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 blankets | det |
| 10 | blankets | blanket | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 brought | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 beads | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 beads | cc |
| 13 | beads | bead | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 blankets | nmod |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 men | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 men | det |
| 16 | White | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 men | amod |
| 17 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 beads | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 bought | punct |
| 19 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 bought | cc |
| 20 | Winona | Winona | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 bought | nsubj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 orphaned | punct |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 orphaned | det |
| 23 | orphaned | orphan | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 Winona | acl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 Winona | punct |
| 25 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 bought | aux:pass |
| 26 | bought | buy | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 brought | conj |
| 27 | by | by | ADP | _ | 31 Tamdóka | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 Tamdóka | det |
| 29 | crafty | crafty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 Tamdóka | amod |
| 30 | relentless | relentless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 Tamdóka | amod |
| 31 | Tamdóka | Tamdóka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 bought | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 brought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | past · passive | the gifts to the teepee | the blankets beads of the White men obj | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Destination blanket=Theme | ||||
| 2 | orphan | participle | Winona not said here | vn orphan-29.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | buy | past · passive | the crafty relentless Tamdóka | Winona | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme |
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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