Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 1, sentence 100
The unscalped corpse of their honored chief His warriors snatched from the yelling pack, And homeward fled on their forest track With their bloody burden and load of grief.
Who acts: unscalped corpse, hilt · What happens: honor, snatch, flee, burden · To what, where: unscalped corpse, yelling pack, homeward, forest track
This is a sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Feast of the Virgins., part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (unscalped corpse, hilt), 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 | 3 corpse | det |
| 2 | unscalped | unscalped | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 corpse | amod |
| 3 | corpse | corpse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 snatched | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 6 honored | mark |
| 5 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 honored | nmod:poss |
| 6 | honored | honor | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 corpse | acl |
| 7 | chief | chief | ADP | _ | 9 warriors | case |
| 8 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 warriors | nmod:poss |
| 9 | warriors | warrior | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 honored | obl |
| 10 | snatched | snatch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 14 pack | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 pack | det |
| 13 | yelling | yelling | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 pack | amod |
| 14 | pack | pack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 snatched | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 homeward | punct |
| 16 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 homeward | cc |
| 17 | homeward | homeward | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 snatched | parataxis |
| 18 | fled | flee | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 homeward | acl |
| 19 | on | on | ADP | _ | 22 track | case |
| 20 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 track | nmod:poss |
| 21 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 track | compound |
| 22 | track | track | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 fled | obl |
| 23 | With | with | ADP | _ | 26 burden | case |
| 24 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 burden | nmod:poss |
| 25 | bloody | bloody | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 burden | amod |
| 26 | burden | burden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 track | nmod |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 load | cc |
| 28 | load | load | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 burden | conj |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 grief | case |
| 30 | grief | grief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 load | nmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 snatched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | honor | participle | the unscalped corpse not said here | chief corpse's warriors; hilt nmod:poss | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | snatch | past | the unscalped corpse | the yelling pack | homeward parataxis | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from pack=Source | |||
| 3 | flee | participle | homeward not said here | hilt's forest track with hilt's bloody burden and load of grief | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | burden | hilt | nom burden «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
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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