Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 2, sentence 42
And whitherward rideth the chief to-day?
What happens: ride · To what, where: chief
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: 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 rideth | cc |
| 2 | whitherward | whitherward | ADV | _ | 3 rideth | advmod |
| 3 | rideth | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 chief | det |
| 5 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 rideth | obj |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 day | case |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 to | punct |
| 8 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 rideth | obl |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 rideth | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ride | present | the chief | day | whitherward property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chief=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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