Legends of the Northwest, The Game of Ball. [2], sentence 8

The star-eyed daughter of Little Crow; [6] And the leader chosen to hold command Of the band adverse is a haughty foe-- The dusky, impetuous Hârpstinà, [7] The queenly cousin of Wapasa.

Who acts: leader · What happens: choose, hold, be, command · To what, where: leader, command, haughty foe, 6, band adverse · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (leader), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 daughter	det
2	star	star	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 eyed	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 star	punct
4	eyed	eyed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 daughter	amod
5	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 6	nsubj
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 Crow	case
7	Little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 Crow	amod
8	Crow	crow	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 daughter	nmod
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 6	punct
10	[	[	PUNCT	_	11 6	punct
11	6	6	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	root	root
12	]	]	PUNCT	_	11 6	punct
13	And	and	CCONJ	_	27 foe	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 leader	det
15	leader	leader	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 foe	nsubj
16	chosen	choose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 leader	acl
17	to	to	PART	_	18 hold	mark
18	hold	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 chosen	advcl
19	command	command	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 hold	obj
20	Of	of	ADP	_	23 adverse	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 adverse	det
22	band	band	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 adverse	compound
23	adverse	adverse	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 command	nmod
24	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 foe	cop
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 foe	det
26	haughty	haughty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 foe	amod
27	foe	foe	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 6	conj
28	--	--	PUNCT	_	33 Hârpstinà	punct
29	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 Hârpstinà	det
30	dusky	dusky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 Hârpstinà	amod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 impetuous	punct
32	impetuous	impetuous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 dusky	conj
33	Hârpstinà	Hârpstinà	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 6	appos
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 7	punct
35	[	[	PUNCT	_	36 7	punct
36	7	7	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	33 Hârpstinà	appos
37	]	]	PUNCT	_	36 7	punct
38	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 cousin	det
39	queenly	queenly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 cousin	amod
40	cousin	cousin	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 Hârpstinà	appos
41	of	of	ADP	_	42 Wapasa	case
42	Wapasa	Wapasa	PROPN	Number=Sing	40 cousin	nmod
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 6	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	choose	participle		the leader not said here	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	hold	to-infinitive		command of the band adverse	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent command=Theme
3	is a	present	the leader	a haughty foe	tree rules
5	command			the band adverse	nom command «communication transitive»: of=patient

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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🌲 Legends of the Northwest, The Game of Ball. [2], sentence 8

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends of the Northwest, The Game of Ball. [2], sentence 8