Legends of the Northwest, The Legend., sentence 28
Many braves were with Wanâta; Apè-dúta, too, was there, And the sad Anpétu-sâpa spread the lodge with wonted care.
Who acts: Many braves, sad Anpétu sâpa · What happens: be, spread, wont · To what, where: lodge
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 (Many braves, sad Anpétu sâpa), 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 | Many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 braves | amod |
| 2 | braves | brave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 there | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 Wanâta | cop |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 Wanâta | case |
| 5 | Wanâta | Wanâta | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 braves | nmod |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 9 dúta | punct |
| 7 | Apè | Apè | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 dúta | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 Apè | punct |
| 9 | dúta | dúta | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 Wanâta | appos |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 braves | punct |
| 11 | too | too | ADV | _ | 2 braves | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 braves | punct |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 there | cop |
| 14 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | root | root |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 spread | punct |
| 16 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 spread | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 sâpa | det |
| 18 | sad | sad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 sâpa | amod |
| 19 | Anpétu | Anpétu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 sâpa | compound |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 Anpétu | punct |
| 21 | sâpa | sâpa | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 spread | nsubj |
| 22 | spread | spread | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 there | parataxis |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 lodge | det |
| 24 | lodge | lodge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 spread | obj |
| 25 | with | with | ADP | _ | 27 care | case |
| 26 | wonted | wont | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 27 care | amod |
| 27 | care | care | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 lodge | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 there | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | with Wanâta; Apè dúta appos | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | is | past | Many braves | there property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | spread | past | the sad Anpétu sâpa | the lodge | with wonted care | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent lodge=Destination with care=Theme | |||
| 4 | wont | participle | 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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