Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 7, sentence 8
Then the blinding storms roared on the plains, like the simoons on sandy Sahara; From the fangs of the fierce hurricanes fled the elk and the deer and the bison.
Who acts: blinding storms · What happens: roar, flee · To what, where: blinding storms, plains, elk
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 (blinding storms), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 24 fled | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 storms | det |
| 3 | blinding | blinding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 storms | compound |
| 4 | storms | storm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 fled | nsubj |
| 5 | roared | roar | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 storms | acl |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 plains | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 plains | det |
| 8 | plains | plain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 roared | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 simoons | punct |
| 10 | like | like | ADP | _ | 12 simoons | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 simoons | det |
| 12 | simoons | simoon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 plains | conj |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 Sahara | case |
| 14 | sandy | sandy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 Sahara | amod |
| 15 | Sahara | Sahara | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 simoons | nmod |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 fangs | punct |
| 17 | From | from | ADP | _ | 19 fangs | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 fangs | det |
| 19 | fangs | fang | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 fled | nsubj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 hurricanes | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 hurricanes | det |
| 22 | fierce | fierce | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 hurricanes | amod |
| 23 | hurricanes | hurricane | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 fangs | nmod |
| 24 | fled | flee | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 elk | det |
| 26 | elk | elk | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 fled | obj |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 deer | cc |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 deer | det |
| 29 | deer | deer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 elk | conj |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 bison | cc |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 bison | det |
| 32 | bison | bison | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 elk | conj |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 24 fled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | roar | participle | the blinding storms not said here | the plains and the simoons on sandy Sahara | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on plain=Location | ||||
| 2 | flee | past | the blinding storms | the elk and the deer and the bison | then | the fangs of the fierce hurricanes nsubj | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme elk=Initial_Location |
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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