Legends of the Northwest, The Legend., sentence 8
So they called the brave "Ska Câpa"; [a] but the fairest of the band-- Moon-faced, meek Anpétu-Sâpa--won the hunter's heart and hand.
Who acts: eyes · What happens: call, win · To what, where: brave Ska Câpa, heart · 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 (eyes), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 called | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 called | nsubj |
| 3 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Câpa | det |
| 5 | brave | brave | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 Câpa | amod |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 Ska | punct |
| 7 | Ska | Ska | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Câpa | compound |
| 8 | Câpa | Câpa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 called | obj |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 Câpa | punct |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 fairest | punct |
| 11 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 16 fairest | punct |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 fairest | det |
| 13 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 12 a | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 fairest | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 fairest | det |
| 16 | fairest | fair | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 3 called | xcomp |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 band | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 band | det |
| 19 | band | band | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 fairest | obl |
| 20 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 23 faced | punct |
| 21 | Moon | Moon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 faced | compound |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 Moon | punct |
| 23 | faced | faced | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 fairest | parataxis |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 Anpétu | punct |
| 25 | meek | meek | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 Anpétu | amod |
| 26 | Anpétu | Anpétu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 faced | appos |
| 27 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 28 Sâpa | punct |
| 28 | Sâpa | Sâpa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 Anpétu | conj |
| 29 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 30 won | punct |
| 30 | won | win | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 called | conj |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 hunter | det |
| 32 | hunter | hunter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 heart | nmod:poss |
| 33 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 32 hunter | case |
| 34 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 won | obj |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 hand | cc |
| 36 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 heart | conj |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 called | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | past | eyes = eye | the brave Ska Câpa | fair property | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent câpa=Recipient | |||
| 2 | win | past | eyes = eye not said here | the hunter's heart and hand | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=Eventuality |
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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