Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 1, sentence 33
Then rose his kinsmen's savage yell.
What happens: rise · To what, where: kinsmen
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: 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 rose | advmod |
| 2 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 kinsmen | nmod:poss |
| 4 | kinsmen | kinsman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 rose | obj |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 kinsmen | case |
| 6 | savage | savage | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 yell | amod |
| 7 | yell | yell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 rose | obl:unmarked |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 rose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rise | past | meteor's kinsmen | then | savage yell obl:unmarked | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location kinsman=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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