Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 7, sentence 135
Are the steps of the enemy nigh, --of the crafty and creeping Ojibways?
What happens: be, creep · To what, where: steps, Ojibways
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 | Are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 steps | cop |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 steps | det |
| 3 | steps | step | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 enemy | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 enemy | det |
| 6 | enemy | enemy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 steps | nmod |
| 7 | nigh | nigh | ADV | _ | 6 enemy | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 crafty | punct |
| 9 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 12 crafty | punct |
| 10 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 12 crafty | mark |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 crafty | det |
| 12 | crafty | crafty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 steps | parataxis |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 creeping | cc |
| 14 | creeping | creep | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 crafty | conj |
| 15 | Ojibways | ojibway | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 creeping | obj |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 steps | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the steps | of the enemy | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | creep | gerund | Ojibways | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location ojibway=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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