Legends of the Northwest, The Game of Ball. [2], sentence 24
Wiwâstè, the fairest Dakota maiden, The sweet-faced daughter of Little Crow, To her teepee [11] turned with her trophy laden-- The black robe trailing the virgin snow.
Who acts: Wiwâstè, black robe · What happens: turn, lade, trail · To what, where: virgin snow
This is a sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Game of Ball. [2]. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Wiwâstè, black robe), 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 | Wiwâstè | Wiwâstè | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 turned | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 maiden | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 maiden | det |
| 4 | fairest | fair | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 6 maiden | amod |
| 5 | Dakota | Dakota | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 maiden | compound |
| 6 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Wiwâstè | appos |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 daughter | punct |
| 8 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 daughter | det |
| 9 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 faced | amod |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 sweet | punct |
| 11 | faced | faced | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 daughter | amod |
| 12 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Wiwâstè | appos |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 Crow | case |
| 14 | Little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 Crow | amod |
| 15 | Crow | crow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 daughter | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 teepee | punct |
| 17 | To | to | ADP | _ | 19 teepee | case |
| 18 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 teepee | nmod:poss |
| 19 | teepee | teepee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 turned | nsubj |
| 20 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 21 11 | punct |
| 21 | 11 | 11 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 19 teepee | appos |
| 22 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 21 11 | punct |
| 23 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 trophy | case |
| 25 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 trophy | nmod:poss |
| 26 | trophy | trophy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 turned | obl |
| 27 | laden | lade | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 turned | xcomp |
| 28 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 31 robe | punct |
| 29 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 robe | det |
| 30 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 robe | amod |
| 31 | robe | robe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 turned | parataxis |
| 32 | trailing | trail | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 31 robe | acl |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 snow | det |
| 34 | virgin | virgin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 snow | compound |
| 35 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 trailing | obj |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 23 turned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | past | Wiwâstè | with Wiwâstè's trophy; Wiwâstè's teepee nsubj; the black robe parataxis | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | lade | participle | Wiwâstè not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | trail | gerund | the black robe not said here | the virgin snow | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent snow=Theme |
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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