Legends of the Northwest, The Legend., sentence 3
When Wakínyan [32] flashed and thundered, when Unktéhee raved and roared, All but brave Wanâta wondered, and the gods with fear implored.
Who acts: Wakínyan, Unktéhee, brave Wanâta, gods · What happens: flash, thunder, rave, roar, wonder, implore · To what, where: All
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 (Wakínyan, Unktéhee, brave Wanâta, gods), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 flashed | advmod |
| 2 | Wakínyan | Wakínyan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 flashed | nsubj |
| 3 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 4 32 | punct |
| 4 | 32 | 32 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 Wakínyan | appos |
| 5 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 4 32 | punct |
| 6 | flashed | flash | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 thundered | cc |
| 8 | thundered | thunder | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 flashed | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 raved | punct |
| 10 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 raved | advmod |
| 11 | Unktéhee | Unktéhee | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 raved | nsubj |
| 12 | raved | rave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 flashed | conj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 roared | cc |
| 14 | roared | roar | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 raved | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 All | punct |
| 16 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 roared | obj |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 wondered | cc |
| 18 | brave | brave | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 Wanâta | amod |
| 19 | Wanâta | Wanâta | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 wondered | nsubj |
| 20 | wondered | wonder | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 All | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 implored | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 implored | cc |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 gods | det |
| 24 | gods | god | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 implored | nsubj |
| 25 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 fear | case |
| 26 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 gods | nmod |
| 27 | implored | implore | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 flashed | conj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 flashed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | flash | past | Wakínyan | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location | |||||
| 2 | thunder | past | Wakínyan not said here | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | rave speech: other | past | Unktéhee | vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | roar | past | Unktéhee not said here | All | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location all=Theme | ||||
| 5 | wonder speech: ask | past | brave Wanâta | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 6 | implore | participle | the gods with fear | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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