Legends of the Northwest, The Legend of the Falls., sentence 10
Great Unktèhee [69]--god of waters--lifts no more his mighty head;-- Fled he with the timid otters?--lies he in the cavern dead?
Who acts: Great Unktèhee · What happens: flee, lie · To what, where: head, cavern
This is a sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Legend of the Falls.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Great Unktèhee), 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 | Great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 Unktèhee | amod |
| 2 | Unktèhee | Unktèhee | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Fled | nsubj |
| 3 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 4 69 | punct |
| 4 | 69 | 69 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 Unktèhee | appos |
| 5 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 4 69 | punct |
| 6 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 7 god | punct |
| 7 | god | god | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Unktèhee | appos |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 waters | case |
| 9 | waters | water | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 god | nmod |
| 10 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 11 lifts | punct |
| 11 | lifts | lift | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 waters | conj |
| 12 | no | no | ADV | _ | 13 more | advmod |
| 13 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 11 lifts | advmod |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 head | nmod:poss |
| 15 | mighty | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 head | amod |
| 16 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 more | nsubj |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 Fled | punct |
| 18 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 19 Fled | punct |
| 19 | Fled | flee | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 Fled | obj |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 otters | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 otters | det |
| 23 | timid | timid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 otters | amod |
| 24 | otters | otter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 Fled | obl |
| 25 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 19 Fled | punct |
| 26 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 27 lies | punct |
| 27 | lies | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 Fled | conj |
| 28 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 lies | obj |
| 29 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 cavern | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 cavern | det |
| 31 | cavern | cavern | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 lies | obl |
| 32 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 lies | advcl |
| 33 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 19 Fled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | flee | past | Great Unktèhee | head | with the timid otters | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme he=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | lie | present | Great Unktèhee not said here | head | the cavern | tree rules |
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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