Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 1, sentence 2
With his battle spear and his bow and quiver, And eagle plumes in his ebon hair, The chief Wakâwa himself is there; And round the feast in the Sacred Ring, [48] Sit his weaponed warriors witnessing.
Who acts: chief Wakâwa · What happens: be, sit, weapon, witness · To what, where: weaponed warriors, Sacred Ring
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 (chief Wakâwa), 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 | With | with | ADP | _ | 4 spear | case |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 spear | nmod:poss |
| 3 | battle | battle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 spear | compound |
| 4 | spear | spear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 there | obl |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 bow | cc |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 bow | nmod:poss |
| 7 | bow | bow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 spear | conj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 quiver | cc |
| 9 | quiver | quiver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 bow | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 plumes | punct |
| 11 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 plumes | cc |
| 12 | eagle | eagle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 plumes | compound |
| 13 | plumes | plume | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 spear | conj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 hair | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 hair | nmod:poss |
| 16 | ebon | ebon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 hair | compound |
| 17 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 plumes | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 spear | punct |
| 19 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Wakâwa | det |
| 20 | chief | chief | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 Wakâwa | amod |
| 21 | Wakâwa | Wakâwa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 there | nsubj |
| 22 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 21 Wakâwa | nmod |
| 23 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 there | cop |
| 24 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | root | root |
| 25 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 38 Sit | punct |
| 26 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 Sit | cc |
| 27 | round | round | ADP | _ | 29 feast | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 feast | det |
| 29 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 Sit | obl |
| 30 | in | in | ADP | _ | 33 Ring | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 Ring | det |
| 32 | Sacred | sacred | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 Ring | amod |
| 33 | Ring | Ring | PROPN | Number=Sing | 38 Sit | obl |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 48 | punct |
| 35 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 36 48 | punct |
| 36 | 48 | 48 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 33 Ring | appos |
| 37 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 33 Ring | punct |
| 38 | Sit | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 there | conj |
| 39 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 41 warriors | nmod:poss |
| 40 | weaponed | weapon | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 41 warriors | amod |
| 41 | warriors | warrior | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 Sit | obj |
| 42 | witnessing | witness | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 38 Sit | advcl |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 24 there | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the chief Wakâwa sun | with sun's battle spear and sun's bow and quiver and eagle plumes in sun's ebon hair; there property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | sit | infinitive | the chief Wakâwa sun not said here | feast's weaponed warriors | the Sacred Ring | round the feast | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent warrior=Theme in ring=Location | ||
| 3 | weapon | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | witness | gerund | the chief Wakâwa sun not said here | vn captain-29.8-1 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=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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