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Legends of the Northwest, The Game of Ball. [2], sentence 31

He strode like a stag, and he stood like a pine: Ten feathers he wore of the great Wanmdeè; [13] With crimsoned quills of the porcupine His leggins were worked to his brawny knee.

Who acts: Cloud, porcupine · What happens: stride, stand, wear, crimson, work · To what, where: Ten feathers, leggins

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 (Cloud, porcupine), 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

nsubjcasedetoblpunctccnsubjconjcasedetoblpunctnummodoblnsubjacl:relclcasedetamodoblpunctpunctoblpunctcaseamodoblcasedetnmodnmod:possnsubj:passaux:passacl:relclcasenmod:possamodoblpunctrootHePRONstrodeVERBlikeADPaDETstagNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJhePRONstoodVERBlikeADPaDETpineNOUN:PUNCTTenNUMfeathersNOUNhePRONworeVERBofADPtheDETgreatADJWanmdeèPROPN;PUNCT[PUNCT13NUM]PUNCTWithADPcrimsonedVERBquillsNOUNofADPtheDETporcupineNOUNHisPRONlegginsNOUNwereAUXworkedVERBtoADPhisPRONbrawnyADJkneeNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1HehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs2 strodensubj
2strodestrideVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
3likelikeADP_5 stagcase
4aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art5 stagdet
5stagstagNOUNNumber=Sing2 strodeobl
6,,PUNCT_9 stoodpunct
7andandCCONJ_9 stoodcc
8hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs9 stoodnsubj
9stoodstandVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin2 strodeconj
10likelikeADP_12 pinecase
11aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art12 pinedet
12pinepineNOUNNumber=Sing9 stoodobl
13::PUNCT_15 featherspunct
14TentenNUMNumForm=Word NumType=Card15 feathersnummod
15feathersfeatherNOUNNumber=Plur9 stoodobl
16hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs17 worensubj
17worewearVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin15 feathersacl:relcl
18ofofADP_21 Wanmdeècase
19thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art21 Wanmdeèdet
20greatgreatADJDegree=Pos21 Wanmdeèamod
21WanmdeèWanmdeèPROPNNumber=Sing17 woreobl
22;;PUNCT_24 13punct
23[[PUNCT_24 13punct
241313NUMNumForm=Digit NumType=Card9 stoodobl
25]]PUNCT_24 13punct
26WithwithADP_28 quillscase
27crimsonedcrimsonVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass28 quillsamod
28quillsquillNOUNNumber=Plur9 stoodobl
29ofofADP_31 porcupinecase
30thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art31 porcupinedet
31porcupineporcupineNOUNNumber=Sing28 quillsnmod
32HishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs33 legginsnmod:poss
33legginslegginNOUNNumber=Plur35 workednsubj:pass
34werebeAUXMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin35 workedaux:pass
35workedworkVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass31 porcupineacl:relcl
36totoADP_39 kneecase
37hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs39 kneenmod:poss
38brawnybrawnyADJDegree=Pos39 kneeamod
39kneekneeNOUNNumber=Sing35 workedobl
40..PUNCT_2 strodepunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1stridepastCloudlike a stagvn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2standpastCloudTen featherslike a pine; with crimsoned quills of the porcupine; 13 oblvn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3wearpastCloudTen feathers not said hereof the great Wanmdeèvn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent feather=Theme of wanmdeè=Source
4crimsonparticiplevn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
5workpast · passivethe porcupine not said hereCloud's legginsto Cloud's brawny kneevn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: subject=Material

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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