Legends of the Northwest, The Legend., sentence 18
Young and fair was Apè-dúta [b]--full of craft and very fair; Proud she walked a queen of beauty with her wondrous flowing hair.
Who acts: honor · What happens: be, walk, flow · To what, where: Young Apè dúta, queen
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 (honor), 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 | Young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 dúta | amod |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 fair | cc |
| 3 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Young | conj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 dúta | cop |
| 5 | Apè | Apè | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 dúta | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 dúta | punct |
| 7 | dúta | dúta | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 9 b | punct |
| 9 | b | B | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 dúta | flat |
| 10 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 9 b | punct |
| 11 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 12 full | punct |
| 12 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 dúta | parataxis |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 craft | case |
| 14 | craft | craft | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 full | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 fair | cc |
| 16 | very | very | ADV | _ | 17 fair | advmod |
| 17 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 full | conj |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 Proud | punct |
| 19 | Proud | proud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 dúta | parataxis |
| 20 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 walked | nsubj |
| 21 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 Proud | ccomp |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 queen | det |
| 23 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 walked | obj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 beauty | case |
| 25 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 queen | nmod |
| 26 | with | with | ADP | _ | 30 hair | case |
| 27 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 hair | nmod:poss |
| 28 | wondrous | wondrous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 hair | amod |
| 29 | flowing | flow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 30 hair | amod |
| 30 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 beauty | nmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 dúta | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Young Apè dúta | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | walk | past | honor | a queen of beauty with honor's wondrous flowing hair | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent queen=Agent | ||||
| 3 | flow | gerund | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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