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Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 8, sentence 11

Swift the strong hunters clomb as she sang, and the foremost of all was Tamdóka; From crag to crag upward he sprang; like a panther he leaped to the summit.

Who acts: you, strong hunters, Winona, crag, Tamdóka · What happens: swift, clomb, sing, be, spring, leap · To what, where: Tamdóka, summit

This is a sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Feast of the Virgins., part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, strong hunters, Winona, crag), 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

detamodnsubjobjmarknsubjadvclpunctccdetxcompcasedetcopnsubjpunctcasensubjcasenmodadvmodnsubjparataxispunctcasedetoblnsubjconjcasedetoblpunctrootSwiftVERBtheDETstrongADJhuntersNOUNclombNOUNasSCONJshePRONsangVERB,PUNCTandCCONJtheDETforemostADJofADPallDETwasAUXTamdókaPROPN;PUNCTFromADPcragNOUNtoADPcragNOUNupwardADVhePRONsprangVERB;PUNCTlikeADPaDETpantherNOUNhePRONleapedVERBtoADPtheDETsummitNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1SwiftswiftVERBMood=Imp VerbForm=Finrootroot
2thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art5 clombdet
3strongstrongADJDegree=Pos4 huntersamod
4huntershunterNOUNNumber=Plur5 clombnsubj
5clombclombNOUNNumber=Sing1 Swiftobj
6asasSCONJ_8 sangmark
7sheshePRONCase=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs8 sangnsubj
8sangsingVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin1 Swiftadvcl
9,,PUNCT_12 foremostpunct
10andandCCONJ_12 foremostcc
11thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art12 foremostdet
12foremostforemostADJDegree=Pos8 sangxcomp
13ofofADP_14 allcase
14allallDETPronType=Tot16 Tamdókadet
15wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin16 Tamdókacop
16TamdókaTamdókaPROPNNumber=Sing12 foremostnsubj
17;;PUNCT_19 cragpunct
18FromfromADP_19 cragcase
19cragcragNOUNNumber=Sing24 sprangnsubj
20totoADP_21 cragcase
21cragcragNOUNNumber=Sing19 cragnmod
22upwardupwardADV_24 sprangadvmod
23hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs24 sprangnsubj
24sprangspringVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin1 Swiftparataxis
25;;PUNCT_30 leapedpunct
26likelikeADP_28 panthercase
27aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art28 pantherdet
28pantherpantherNOUNNumber=Sing30 leapedobl
29hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs30 leapednsubj
30leapedleapVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin1 Swiftconj
31totoADP_33 summitcase
32thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art33 summitdet
33summitsummitNOUNNumber=Sing30 leapedobl
34..PUNCT_1 Swiftpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1swiftimperativeyou not said heretree rules
2clombstrong hunterstree rules
3sing speech: expresspastWinonaforemost propertyvn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location
4is apastall Tamdókatree rules
5springpastcrag to cragTamdóka nsubj; upward propertyvn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6leappastTamdókathe summitlike a panthervn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to summit=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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