Legends of the Northwest, Heyóka Wacípee [16]--the Giant's Dance., sentence 81
But the chief with the flankers had gained the rear, And flew on the trail of the flying herd.
What happens: gain, fly · To what, where: chief, trail
This is a sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, Heyóka Wacípee [16]--the Giant's Dance.. 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 gained | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 chief | det |
| 3 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 gained | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 flankers | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 flankers | det |
| 6 | flankers | flanker | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 chief | nmod |
| 7 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 gained | aux |
| 8 | gained | gain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 rear | det |
| 10 | rear | rear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 gained | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 flew | punct |
| 12 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 flew | cc |
| 13 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 gained | conj |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 trail | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 trail | det |
| 16 | trail | trail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 flew | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 herd | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 herd | det |
| 19 | flying | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 20 herd | amod |
| 20 | herd | herd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 trail | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 gained | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gain | past · perfect · passive | the chief with the flankers | the rear obj | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary rear=Theme | ||||
| 2 | fly | past | the trail of the flying herd | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on trail=Location | |||||
| 3 | fly | gerund | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=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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