Legends of the Northwest, Heyóka Wacípee [16]--the Giant's Dance., sentence 85
But the raging monsters are held at bay, While the flankers dash on the swarthy rout.
Who acts: flankers · What happens: rage, hold, dash · To what, where: raging monsters, bay, swarthy rout
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: who acts (flankers), 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 | _ | 6 held | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 monsters | det |
| 3 | raging | rage | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 monsters | amod |
| 4 | monsters | monster | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 held | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 held | aux:pass |
| 6 | held | hold | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 bay | case |
| 8 | bay | bay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 held | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 dash | punct |
| 10 | While | while | SCONJ | _ | 13 dash | mark |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 flankers | det |
| 12 | flankers | flanker | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 dash | nsubj |
| 13 | dash | dash | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 held | conj |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 rout | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 rout | det |
| 16 | swarthy | swarthy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 rout | amod |
| 17 | rout | rout | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 dash | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 held | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rage | gerund | vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | hold | present · passive | the raging monsters | bay | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme at bay=Location | ||||
| 3 | dash | present | the flankers | the swarthy rout | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on rout=Trajectory |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8122/7/85/