Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 7, sentence 5
Wazíya came down from the North --from his land of perpetual winter.
Who acts: Wazíya · What happens: come down · To what, where: North
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 (Wazíya), 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 | Wazíya | Wazíya | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 came | nsubj |
| 2 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | down | down | ADV | _ | 2 came | advmod |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 North | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 North | det |
| 6 | North | North | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 came | obl |
| 7 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 10 land | punct |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 land | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 land | nmod:poss |
| 10 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 came | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 winter | case |
| 12 | perpetual | perpetual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 winter | amod |
| 13 | winter | winter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 land | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come down | past | Wazíya | the North | from Wazíya's land of perpetual winter; down property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme from north=Initial_Location from land=Destination |
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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