Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 7, sentence 15
But now with the saddle of deer, and the gifts, came the crafty Tamdóka; And he said, "Lo I bring you good cheer, for I love the blind Chief and his daughter.
Who acts: gifts, Tamdóka · What happens: come, say, bring, love · To what, where: good cheer, you, blind Chief · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (gifts, 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 saddle | cc |
| 2 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 saddle | advmod |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 saddle | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 saddle | det |
| 5 | saddle | saddle | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 deer | case |
| 7 | deer | deer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 saddle | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 came | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 came | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 gifts | det |
| 11 | gifts | gift | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 came | nsubj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 gifts | punct |
| 13 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 saddle | parataxis |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Tamdóka | det |
| 15 | crafty | crafty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 Tamdóka | amod |
| 16 | Tamdóka | Tamdóka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 came | nsubj |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 said | punct |
| 18 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 said | cc |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 said | nsubj |
| 20 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 came | parataxis |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 bring | punct |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 bring | punct |
| 23 | Lo | lo | INTJ | _ | 25 bring | discourse |
| 24 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 bring | nsubj |
| 25 | bring | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 said | conj |
| 26 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 25 bring | obj |
| 27 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 cheer | amod |
| 28 | cheer | cheer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 bring | obj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 love | punct |
| 30 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 32 love | mark |
| 31 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 32 love | nsubj |
| 32 | love | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 bring | conj |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 Chief | det |
| 34 | blind | blind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 Chief | amod |
| 35 | Chief | Chief | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 love | obj |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 daughter | cc |
| 37 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 38 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 Chief | conj |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 saddle | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the gifts | the crafty Tamdóka nsubj | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Tamdóka | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | bring in a quote | present | Tamdóka | good cheer | you | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent you=Destination cheer=Theme | |||
| 4 | love in a quote | present | Tamdóka | the blind Chief and Tamdóka's daughter | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer chief=Stimulus |
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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