Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 7, sentence 77
The coon to his den in the tree, and the bear to his burrow she followed; A brave, skillful hunter was she, and Ta-té-psin's lodge laughed with abundance.
Who acts: bear, coon · What happens: follow, be, laugh · To what, where: burrow, bear
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 (bear, coon), 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 coon | det |
| 2 | coon | coon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 laughed | nsubj |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 den | case |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 den | nmod:poss |
| 5 | den | den | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 coon | nmod |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 tree | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 tree | det |
| 8 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 coon | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 she | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 she | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 bear | det |
| 12 | bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 she | nsubj |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 burrow | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 burrow | nmod:poss |
| 15 | burrow | burrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 bear | 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 burrow | acl:relcl |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 hunter | punct |
| 19 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 hunter | det |
| 20 | brave | brave | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 hunter | amod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 brave | punct |
| 22 | skillful | skillful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 hunter | amod |
| 23 | hunter | hunter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 bear | conj |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 she | cop |
| 25 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 laughed | nsubj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 laughed | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 laughed | cc |
| 28 | Ta | Ta | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 psin | compound |
| 29 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 28 Ta | punct |
| 30 | té | té | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 psin | compound |
| 31 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 30 té | punct |
| 32 | psin | psin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 lodge | nmod:poss |
| 33 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 32 psin | case |
| 34 | lodge | lodge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 laughed | nsubj |
| 35 | laughed | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 36 | with | with | ADP | _ | 37 abundance | case |
| 37 | abundance | abundance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 laughed | obl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 35 laughed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | past | bear | bow's burrow not said here | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent burrow=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | the bear to bow's burrow and a brave skillful hunter | bear | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | laugh | past | the coon to bow's den in the tree | with abundance; Ta té psin's lodge nsubj | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «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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