Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 1, sentence 73
Gone,--brothers, and daughters, and wife,--all gone That are kin to Wakâwa,--but one--but one-- Wakínyan Tanka--undutiful son!
Who acts: all, one · What happens: be, son · To what, where: Gone brothers, Wakâwa
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 (all, one), 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 | Gone | gone | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 brothers | amod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 brothers | punct |
| 3 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 4 brothers | punct |
| 4 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 daughters | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 daughters | cc |
| 7 | daughters | daughter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 brothers | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 wife | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 wife | cc |
| 10 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 brothers | appos |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 wife | punct |
| 12 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 17 kin | punct |
| 13 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 kin | nsubj |
| 14 | gone | gone | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 kin | nsubj |
| 15 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 17 kin | nsubj |
| 16 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 kin | cop |
| 17 | kin | kin | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 brothers | acl:relcl |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 Wakâwa | case |
| 19 | Wakâwa | Wakâwa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 kin | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 son | punct |
| 21 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 32 son | punct |
| 22 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 32 son | cc |
| 23 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 32 son | nsubj |
| 24 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 26 one | punct |
| 25 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 26 one | cc |
| 26 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 23 one | conj |
| 27 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 32 son | punct |
| 28 | Wakínyan | Wakínyan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 son | compound |
| 29 | Tanka | Tanka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 Wakínyan | flat |
| 30 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 28 Wakínyan | punct |
| 31 | undutiful | undutiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 son | amod |
| 32 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 Wakâwa | appos |
| 33 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 brothers | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | all | Gone brothers and daughters not said here | Wakâwa | Gone brothers and daughters nsubj; kin property | tree rules | ||
| 2 | son | one | 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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