Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 7, sentence 13
The coon or the bear, ventured not from his cover; For the cold, cruel Arctic Simoon swept the earth like the breath of a furnace.
Who acts: coon, cruel Arctic Simoon · What happens: not venture, sweep · To what, where: cover, earth
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 (coon, cruel Arctic Simoon), 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 coon | det |
| 2 | coon | coon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 ventured | nsubj |
| 3 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 5 bear | cc |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 bear | det |
| 5 | bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 coon | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 coon | punct |
| 7 | ventured | venture | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 ventured | advmod |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 cover | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 cover | nmod:poss |
| 11 | cover | cover | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 ventured | obj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 swept | punct |
| 13 | For | for | ADP | _ | 15 cold | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 cold | det |
| 15 | cold | cold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 swept | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 cold | punct |
| 17 | cruel | cruel | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 Simoon | amod |
| 18 | Arctic | Arctic | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Simoon | compound |
| 19 | Simoon | simoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 swept | nsubj |
| 20 | swept | sweep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 ventured | conj |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 earth | det |
| 22 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 swept | obj |
| 23 | like | like | ADP | _ | 25 breath | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 breath | det |
| 25 | breath | breath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 swept | obl |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 furnace | case |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 furnace | det |
| 28 | furnace | furnace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 breath | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 ventured | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not venture | past | the coon or the bear | forest's cover | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent cover=Topic | ||||
| 2 | sweep | past | cruel Arctic Simoon | the earth | for the cold; like the breath of a furnace | vn search-35.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent earth=Location for cold=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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