Legends of the Northwest, The Game of Ball. [2], sentence 9
[8] Kapóza's chief and his tawny hunters Are gathered to witness the queenly game.
What happens: gather · To what, where: tawny hunters, 8
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: 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 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 2 8 | punct |
| 2 | 8 | 8 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
| 3 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 2 8 | punct |
| 4 | Kapóza | Kapóza | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 chief | nmod:poss |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 Kapóza | case |
| 6 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 8 | nmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 gathered | cc |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 hunters | nmod:poss |
| 9 | tawny | tawny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 hunters | amod |
| 10 | hunters | hunter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 gathered | nsubj |
| 11 | Are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 gathered | aux:pass |
| 12 | gathered | gather | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 8 | conj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 witness | mark |
| 14 | witness | witness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 gathered | xcomp |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 game | det |
| 16 | queenly | queenly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 game | amod |
| 17 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 gathered | obl:unmarked |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 8 | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gather | present · passive | Kapóza's tawny hunters | the queenly game obl:unmarked; witness xcomp | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: subject=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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