Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 1, sentence 61
O, why did the chief of the tall Hóhé His feet from Kapóza [6] so long delay?
What happens: do · To what, where: chief, Kapóza
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 | O | o | INTJ | _ | 4 did | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 did | punct |
| 3 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 did | advmod |
| 4 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 chief | det |
| 6 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 did | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 Hóhé | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Hóhé | det |
| 9 | tall | tall | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 Hóhé | amod |
| 10 | Hóhé | Hóhé | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 chief | nmod |
| 11 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 feet | nmod:poss |
| 12 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 did | obj |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 14 Kapóza | case |
| 14 | Kapóza | Kapóza | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 did | obl |
| 15 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 16 6 | punct |
| 16 | 6 | 6 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 14 Kapóza | appos |
| 17 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 16 6 | punct |
| 18 | so | so | ADV | _ | 19 long | advmod |
| 19 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 delay | amod |
| 20 | delay | delay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 did | obl:unmarked |
| 21 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | the chief of the tall Hóhé | Kapóza | long delay obl:unmarked; Bright's feet obj | tree rules |
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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