Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 2, sentence 35
Her feet are fleet, but the flying feet Of the steeds of the prairie are fleeter still; And where can she fly for a safe retreat?
Who acts: feet, flying feet, Wiwâstè · What happens: be, fly
This is a sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Feast of the Virgins., part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (feet, flying feet, 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 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 feet | nmod:poss |
| 2 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 fleet | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 fleet | cop |
| 4 | fleet | fleet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 fleeter | punct |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 fleeter | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 feet | det |
| 8 | flying | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 feet | amod |
| 9 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 fleeter | nsubj |
| 10 | Of | of | ADP | _ | 12 steeds | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 steeds | det |
| 12 | steeds | steed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 feet | nmod |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 prairie | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 prairie | det |
| 15 | prairie | prairie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 steeds | nmod |
| 16 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 fleeter | cop |
| 17 | fleeter | fleet | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 fleet | conj |
| 18 | still | still | ADV | _ | 17 fleeter | advmod |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 fly | punct |
| 20 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 fly | cc |
| 21 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 24 fly | advmod |
| 22 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 fly | aux |
| 23 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 fly | nsubj |
| 24 | fly | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 fleet | parataxis |
| 25 | for | for | ADP | _ | 28 retreat | case |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 retreat | det |
| 27 | safe | safe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 retreat | amod |
| 28 | retreat | retreat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 fly | obl |
| 29 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 fleet | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Wiwâstè's feet | fleet property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | fly | gerund | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | is | present | the flying feet of the steeds of the prairie | still | fleet property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | fly | can | Wiwâstè | for a safe retreat | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «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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