Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 1, sentence 37
They found no trace in the forest land, They found no trail in the dew-damp grass, They found no track in the river sand, Where they thought Wiwâstè would surely pass.
Who acts: hunters, Wiwâstè · What happens: find, think, pass · To what, where: trace, forest land, trail, damp grass, track, river sand · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (hunters, Wiwâstè), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 found | nsubj |
| 2 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 4 trace | det |
| 4 | trace | trace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 found | obj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 land | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 land | det |
| 7 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 land | compound |
| 8 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 found | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 found | punct |
| 10 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 found | nsubj |
| 11 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 found | conj |
| 12 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 13 trail | det |
| 13 | trail | trail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 found | obj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 grass | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 grass | det |
| 16 | dew | dew | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 damp | compound |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 dew | punct |
| 18 | damp | damp | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 grass | amod |
| 19 | grass | grass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 found | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 found | punct |
| 21 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 found | nsubj |
| 22 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 found | parataxis |
| 23 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 24 track | det |
| 24 | track | track | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 found | obj |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 sand | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 sand | det |
| 27 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 sand | compound |
| 28 | sand | sand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 found | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 thought | punct |
| 30 | Where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 32 thought | advmod |
| 31 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 thought | nsubj |
| 32 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 found | conj |
| 33 | Wiwâstè | Wiwâstè | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 pass | nsubj |
| 34 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 36 pass | aux |
| 35 | surely | surely | ADV | _ | 36 pass | advmod |
| 36 | pass | pass | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 32 thought | ccomp |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | past | hunters = hunter | no trace | the forest land | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trace=Topic | |||
| 2 | find | past | hunters = hunter | no trail | the damp grass | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trail=Topic | |||
| 3 | find | past | hunters = hunter | no track | the river sand | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent track=Topic | |||
| 4 | think speech: other | past | hunters = hunter | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | pass | would | Wiwâstè | surely property | vn occur-48.3-1 «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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