Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 7, sentence 25
The bow of Ta-té-psin she took and his arrows, And afar o'er the deep, drifted snow, through the forest, she sped on her snow-shoes.
Who acts: bow, Ta · What happens: take, drift, speed · To what, where: arrows, forest, snow shoes
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 (bow, Ta), 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 bow | det |
| 2 | bow | bow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 took | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 psin | case |
| 4 | Ta | Ta | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 psin | nsubj |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 Ta | punct |
| 6 | té | té | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 psin | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 psin | punct |
| 8 | psin | psin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 bow | nmod |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 took | nsubj |
| 10 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 arrows | cc |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 arrows | nmod:poss |
| 13 | arrows | arrow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 took | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 afar | punct |
| 15 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 afar | cc |
| 16 | afar | afar | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 took | conj |
| 17 | o'er | o'er | ADP | _ | 22 snow | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 snow | det |
| 19 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 snow | amod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 deep | punct |
| 21 | drifted | drift | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 snow | amod |
| 22 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 afar | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 forest | punct |
| 24 | through | through | ADP | _ | 26 forest | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 forest | det |
| 26 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 took | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 sped | punct |
| 28 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 sped | nsubj |
| 29 | sped | speed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 took | conj |
| 30 | on | on | ADP | _ | 34 shoes | case |
| 31 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 shoes | nmod:poss |
| 32 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 shoes | compound |
| 33 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 32 snow | punct |
| 34 | shoes | shoe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 sped | obl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | the bow of té psin Ta | bow's arrows | the forest | Ta nsubj | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arrow=Theme | ||
| 2 | drift | participle | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | speed | past | Ta | Ta's snow shoes | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on shoe=Trajectory |
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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