Legends of the Northwest, The Legend., sentence 4
When the war-whoop wild resounded, calling friends to meet the foe, From the teepee swift he bounded, armed with polished lance and bow.
Who acts: Wanâta · What happens: resound, call, meet, bound, polish · To what, where: war whoop, friends, foe, teepee swift · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Wanâta), 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 | 7 resounded | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 whoop | det |
| 3 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 whoop | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 war | punct |
| 5 | whoop | whoop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 resounded | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 resounded | amod |
| 7 | resounded | resound | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 calling | punct |
| 9 | calling | call | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 resounded | advcl |
| 10 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 calling | obj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 meet | mark |
| 12 | meet | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 calling | xcomp |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 foe | det |
| 14 | foe | foe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 meet | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 swift | punct |
| 16 | From | from | ADP | _ | 19 swift | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 swift | det |
| 18 | teepee | teepee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 swift | compound |
| 19 | swift | swift | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 meet | obl |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 bounded | nsubj |
| 21 | bounded | bound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 swift | acl:relcl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 armed | punct |
| 23 | armed | armed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 swift | amod |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 lance | case |
| 25 | polished | polish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 lance | amod |
| 26 | lance | lance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 armed | obl |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 bow | cc |
| 28 | bow | bow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 lance | conj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 resounded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | resound | participle · passive | the war whoop | vn sound_existence-47.4 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | call | gerund | friends | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | meet | to-infinitive | the foe | the teepee swift | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent foe=Co-Agent | ||||
| 4 | bound | past | Wanâta | the teepee swift not said here | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location swift=Theme | ||||
| 5 | polish | participle | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: 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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