Legends of the Northwest, The Legend., sentence 14
At the council-fire he sat a leader loved a chieftain grand.
Who acts: fire, leader · What happens: sit, love · To what, where: council fire, chieftain
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: who acts (fire, leader), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 5 fire | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 fire | det |
| 3 | council | council | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 fire | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 council | punct |
| 5 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sat | obl |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 sat | nsubj |
| 7 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 leader | det |
| 9 | leader | leader | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 loved | nsubj |
| 10 | loved | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 sat | ccomp |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 chieftain | det |
| 12 | chieftain | chieftain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 loved | obj |
| 13 | grand | grand | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 loved | xcomp |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 sat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | past | fire | the council fire | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | love | past | a leader | a chieftain | grand property | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer chieftain=Stimulus |
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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