Legends of the Northwest, The Legend., sentence 11
From the wars with triumph burning, from the chase of bison fleet, To his lodge the brave returning, spread his trophies at her feet.
What happens: spread, chase · To what, where: trophies, wars, bison fleet
This is a sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Legend.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | From | from | ADP | _ | 3 wars | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 wars | det |
| 3 | wars | war | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 spread | obl |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 burning | case |
| 5 | triumph | triumph | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 burning | compound |
| 6 | burning | burning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 wars | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 chase | punct |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 chase | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 chase | det |
| 10 | chase | chase | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 wars | nmod |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 fleet | case |
| 12 | bison | bison | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 fleet | compound |
| 13 | fleet | fleet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 chase | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 lodge | punct |
| 15 | To | to | ADP | _ | 17 lodge | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 lodge | nmod:poss |
| 17 | lodge | lodge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 fleet | conj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 returning | det |
| 19 | brave | brave | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 returning | amod |
| 20 | returning | returning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 lodge | appos |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 wars | punct |
| 22 | spread | spread | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 trophies | nmod:poss |
| 24 | trophies | trophy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 spread | obj |
| 25 | at | at | ADP | _ | 27 feet | case |
| 26 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 feet | nmod:poss |
| 27 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 spread | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 22 spread | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spread | past | beaver's trophies | the wars with triumph burning from the chase of bison fleet and beaver's lodge | at Sâpa's feet | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination-Conative»: agent=Agent trophy=Theme at foot=Destination | |||
| 2 | chase | bison fleet and beaver's lodge | nom chase «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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