Legends of the Northwest, The Game of Ball. [2], sentence 28
Mah-pí-ya Dú-ta [12] the tall Red Cloud, A hunter swift and a warrior proud, With many a scar and many a feather, Was a suitor bold and a lover fond.
Who acts: Dú · What happens: be · To what, where: suitor bold
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 (Dú), 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 | Mah | Mah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 ya | compound |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 Mah | punct |
| 3 | pí | pí | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 ya | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 pí | punct |
| 5 | ya | ya | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Dú | nmod:desc |
| 6 | Dú | Dú | PROPN | Number=Sing | 37 bold | nsubj |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 ta | punct |
| 8 | ta | ta | X | Foreign=Yes | 6 Dú | dep |
| 9 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 10 12 | punct |
| 10 | 12 | 12 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 ta | appos |
| 11 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 10 12 | punct |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Cloud | det |
| 13 | tall | tall | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 Cloud | amod |
| 14 | Red | Red | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Cloud | flat |
| 15 | Cloud | Cloud | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 ta | appos |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 swift | punct |
| 17 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 swift | det |
| 18 | hunter | hunter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 swift | compound |
| 19 | swift | swift | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 Cloud | appos |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 warrior | cc |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 warrior | det |
| 22 | warrior | warrior | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 swift | conj |
| 23 | proud | proud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 swift | amod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 scar | punct |
| 25 | With | with | ADP | _ | 28 scar | case |
| 26 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 scar | amod |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 scar | det |
| 28 | scar | scar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 proud | obl |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 feather | cc |
| 30 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 feather | amod |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 feather | det |
| 32 | feather | feather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 scar | conj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Dú | punct |
| 34 | Was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 bold | cop |
| 35 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 bold | det |
| 36 | suitor | suitor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 bold | compound |
| 37 | bold | bold | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 lover | cc |
| 39 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 40 lover | det |
| 40 | lover | lover | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 bold | conj |
| 41 | fond | fond | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 bold | amod |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 37 bold | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Dú Mah pí ya | a suitor bold and a lover | a lover conj | tree rules |
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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