Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 7, sentence 29
In the gloam of the morning again on the trail of the red-deer she followed-- All day long through the thickets in vain, for the gray wolves were chasing the roebucks; And the cold, hungry winds from the plain chased the wolves and the deer and Winona.
Who acts: Ta, gray wolves, cold hungry winds · What happens: follow, chase · To what, where: red deer, roebucks, wolves
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 (Ta, gray wolves, cold hungry winds), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 gloam | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 gloam | det |
| 3 | gloam | gloam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 long | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 morning | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 morning | det |
| 6 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gloam | nmod |
| 7 | again | again | ADV | _ | 6 morning | advmod |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 trail | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 trail | det |
| 10 | trail | trail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 morning | nmod |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 deer | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 deer | det |
| 13 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 deer | amod |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 red | punct |
| 15 | deer | deer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 trail | nmod |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 followed | nsubj |
| 17 | followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 deer | acl:relcl |
| 18 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 3 gloam | punct |
| 19 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 20 day | det |
| 20 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 long | obl:unmarked |
| 21 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 22 | through | through | ADP | _ | 24 thickets | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 thickets | det |
| 24 | thickets | thicket | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 long | obl |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 vain | case |
| 26 | vain | vain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 thickets | amod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 chasing | punct |
| 28 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 33 chasing | mark |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 wolves | det |
| 30 | gray | gray | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 wolves | compound |
| 31 | wolves | wolf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 chasing | nsubj |
| 32 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 chasing | aux |
| 33 | chasing | chase | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 26 vain | conj |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 roebucks | det |
| 35 | roebucks | roebuck | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 chasing | obj |
| 36 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 46 chased | punct |
| 37 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 winds | cc |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 winds | det |
| 39 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 winds | amod |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 cold | punct |
| 41 | hungry | hungry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 winds | amod |
| 42 | winds | wind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 46 chased | nsubj |
| 43 | from | from | ADP | _ | 45 plain | case |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 plain | det |
| 45 | plain | plain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 winds | nmod |
| 46 | chased | chase | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 vain | parataxis |
| 47 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 48 wolves | det |
| 48 | wolves | wolf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 46 chased | obj |
| 49 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 51 deer | cc |
| 50 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 51 deer | det |
| 51 | deer | deer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 wolves | conj |
| 52 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 53 Winona | cc |
| 53 | Winona | Winona | PROPN | Number=Sing | 48 wolves | conj |
| 54 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 long | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | past | Ta | the red deer not said here | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent deer=Theme | ||||
| 2 | chase | past · progressive | the gray wolves | the roebucks | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent roebuck=Theme | ||||
| 3 | chase | past | the cold hungry winds from the plain | the wolves and the deer and Winona | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wolf=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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