Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 1, sentence 95
Undaunted the braves of Wakâwa's band Jumped into the thicket with lance and knife, And grappled the Chippewas hand to hand; And foe with foe, in the deadly strife, Lay clutching the scalp of his foe and dead, With a tomahawk sunk in his ghastly head, Or his still heart sheathing a bloody blade.
Who acts: Undaunted braves, deadly strife, heart · What happens: jump, grapple, clutch, sink, sheath · To what, where: band, thicket, Chippewas hand, scalp, tomahawk, ghastly head
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 (Undaunted braves, deadly strife, heart), 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 | Undaunted | Undaunted | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 braves | compound |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 braves | det |
| 3 | braves | brave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 grappled | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 band | case |
| 5 | Wakâwa | Wakâwa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 band | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 Wakâwa | case |
| 7 | band | band | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 braves | nmod |
| 8 | Jumped | jump | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 band | acl |
| 9 | into | into | ADP | _ | 11 thicket | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 thicket | det |
| 11 | thicket | thicket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 Jumped | obl |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 lance | case |
| 13 | lance | lance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 thicket | nmod |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 knife | cc |
| 15 | knife | knife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 thicket | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 grappled | punct |
| 17 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 grappled | cc |
| 18 | grappled | grapple | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 hand | det |
| 20 | Chippewas | Chippewas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 hand | compound |
| 21 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 grappled | obj |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 hand | case |
| 23 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 grappled | obl |
| 24 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 foe | punct |
| 25 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 foe | cc |
| 26 | foe | foe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 grappled | parataxis |
| 27 | with | with | ADP | _ | 28 foe | case |
| 28 | foe | foe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 foe | nmod |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 strife | punct |
| 30 | in | in | ADP | _ | 33 strife | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 strife | det |
| 32 | deadly | deadly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 strife | amod |
| 33 | strife | strife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 foe | conj |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 Lay | punct |
| 35 | Lay | Lay | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 strife | appos |
| 36 | clutching | clutch | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 33 strife | acl |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 scalp | det |
| 38 | scalp | scalp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 clutching | obj |
| 39 | of | of | ADP | _ | 41 foe | case |
| 40 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 41 foe | nmod:poss |
| 41 | foe | foe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 scalp | nmod |
| 42 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 dead | cc |
| 43 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 foe | conj |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 tomahawk | punct |
| 45 | With | with | ADP | _ | 47 tomahawk | case |
| 46 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 47 tomahawk | det |
| 47 | tomahawk | tomahawk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 foe | conj |
| 48 | sunk | sink | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 47 tomahawk | acl |
| 49 | in | in | ADP | _ | 52 head | case |
| 50 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 52 head | nmod:poss |
| 51 | ghastly | ghastly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 52 head | amod |
| 52 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 sunk | obl |
| 53 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 57 heart | punct |
| 54 | Or | or | CCONJ | _ | 57 heart | cc |
| 55 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 57 heart | nmod:poss |
| 56 | still | still | ADV | _ | 57 heart | advmod |
| 57 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 foe | conj |
| 58 | sheathing | sheath | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 57 heart | acl |
| 59 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 61 blade | det |
| 60 | bloody | bloody | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 61 blade | amod |
| 61 | blade | blade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 58 sheathing | obj |
| 62 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 grappled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | jump | participle | Wakâwa's band not said here | into the thicket with lance and knife result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into thicket=Result | ||||
| 2 | grapple | past | the Undaunted braves of Wakâwa's band | the Chippewas hand | to hand; foe with foe and the deadly strife and a tomahawk or thicket's heart parataxis | vn cope-83-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme | |||
| 3 | clutch | gerund | the deadly strife not said here | the scalp of thicket's foe | vn hold-15.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent scalp=Theme | ||||
| 4 | sink | participle | a tomahawk not said here | thicket's ghastly head | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 5 | sheath | gerund | thicket's heart not said here | a bloody blade | 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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