Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 1, sentence 89
At the break of dawn with the bow and lance They followed the chief on the path of war.
Who acts: warriors · What happens: follow, break · To what, where: chief, break, dawn
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 (warriors), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 break | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 break | det |
| 3 | break | break | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 followed | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 dawn | case |
| 5 | dawn | dawn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 break | nmod |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 bow | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 bow | det |
| 8 | bow | bow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 dawn | nmod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 lance | cc |
| 10 | lance | lance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 break | conj |
| 11 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 followed | nsubj |
| 12 | followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 chief | det |
| 14 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 followed | obj |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 path | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 path | det |
| 17 | path | path | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 followed | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 war | case |
| 19 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 path | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 followed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | past | warriors = warrior | the chief | the break of dawn with the bow and lance | on the path of war | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent chief=Theme at break=Trajectory | ||
| 2 | break | dawn with the bow | nom break «event transitive»: of=patient |
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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