Legends of the Northwest, The Legend., sentence 15
Proud was fair Anpétu-Sâpa, and her eyes were glad with joy; Proud was she and very happy, with her chieftain and her boy.
Who acts: Proud, eyes · What happens: be
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 (Proud, eyes), 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 | Proud | Proud | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 fair | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 fair | cop |
| 3 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | Anpétu | Anpétu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Sâpa | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 Sâpa | punct |
| 6 | Sâpa | Sâpa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 fair | csubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 glad | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 glad | cc |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 10 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 glad | nsubj |
| 11 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 glad | cop |
| 12 | glad | glad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 fair | conj |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 joy | case |
| 14 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 glad | obl |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 happy | punct |
| 16 | Proud | Proud | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 happy | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 happy | cop |
| 18 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 happy | nsubj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 happy | cc |
| 20 | very | very | ADV | _ | 21 happy | advmod |
| 21 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 fair | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 chieftain | punct |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 chieftain | case |
| 24 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 chieftain | nmod:poss |
| 25 | chieftain | chieftain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 happy | obl |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 boy | cc |
| 27 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 boy | nmod:poss |
| 28 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 chieftain | conj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 fair | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Proud | Anpétu Sâpa csubj; fair property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | past | Proud's eyes | with joy; glad property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is | past | Proud | with Proud's chieftain and Proud's boy; happy property | 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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