Legends of the Northwest, The Legend., sentence 5
In the battle's din and clangor fast his fatal arrows flew, Flashed his fiery eyes with anger,--many a haughty foe he slew.
Who acts: fatal arrows, many, Wanâta, battle · What happens: fly, flash, foe, slay, din · To what, where: din, fiery eyes, haughty foe
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 (fatal arrows, many, Wanâta, battle), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 5 din | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 battle | det |
| 3 | battle | battle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 din | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 battle | case |
| 5 | din | din | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 flew | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 clangor | cc |
| 7 | clangor | clangor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 din | conj |
| 8 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 12 flew | advmod |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 arrows | nmod:poss |
| 10 | fatal | fatal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 arrows | amod |
| 11 | arrows | arrow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 flew | nsubj |
| 12 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 Flashed | punct |
| 14 | Flashed | flash | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 flew | conj |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 16 | fiery | fiery | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 eyes | amod |
| 17 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 Flashed | obj |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 anger | case |
| 19 | anger | anger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 Flashed | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 foe | punct |
| 21 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 25 foe | punct |
| 22 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 foe | nsubj |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 foe | det |
| 24 | haughty | haughty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 foe | amod |
| 25 | foe | foe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 flew | conj |
| 26 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 slew | nsubj |
| 27 | slew | slay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 foe | acl:relcl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 flew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly | past | Wanâta's fatal arrows | the battle's din and clangor | fast property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in din=Location | |||
| 2 | flash | past | Wanâta's fatal arrows not said here | Wanâta's fiery eyes | with anger | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent eye=Theme | |||
| 3 | foe | many | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | slay | past | Wanâta | a haughty foe not said here | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent foe=Patient | ||||
| 5 | din | the battle | nom din «event intransitive»: poss=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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