Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 7, sentence 74
If they have followed a hunter all night, or "treed" him they will skulk away as soon as the sun rises.
Who acts: wolves, sun · What happens: follow, tree, skulk away, rise · To what, where: wolves, bow
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 (wolves, sun), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 followed | mark |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 followed | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 followed | aux |
| 4 | followed | follow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 hunter | det |
| 6 | hunter | hunter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 followed | obj |
| 7 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 night | det |
| 8 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 followed | obl:unmarked |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 treed | punct |
| 10 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 12 treed | cc |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 treed | punct |
| 12 | treed | tree | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 followed | conj |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 treed | punct |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 treed | obj |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 skulk | nsubj |
| 16 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 skulk | aux |
| 17 | skulk | skulk | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 treed | ccomp |
| 18 | away | away | ADV | _ | 17 skulk | advmod |
| 19 | as | as | ADV | _ | 20 soon | advmod |
| 20 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 17 skulk | advmod |
| 21 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 24 rises | mark |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 sun | det |
| 23 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 rises | nsubj |
| 24 | rises | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 soon | advcl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 followed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | present · perfect · passive | wolves = wolf | night | a hunter obj | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP.attribute»: subject=Theme hunter=Attribute | |||
| 2 | tree in a quote | past | bow | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | skulk away | future | wolves = wolf | away, soon property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | rise | present | the sun | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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