Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 2, sentence 43
As he followed the trail of the buffalo, From the tees of Kapóza a maiden, lo, Came running in haste o'er the drifted snow.
Who acts: Tis, Kapóza · What happens: follow, come, run, drift · To what, where: trail, haste
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 (Tis, Kapóza), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 3 followed | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 followed | nsubj |
| 3 | followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 trail | det |
| 5 | trail | trail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 followed | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 buffalo | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 buffalo | det |
| 8 | buffalo | buffalo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 trail | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 tees | punct |
| 10 | From | from | ADP | _ | 12 tees | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 tees | det |
| 12 | tees | tee | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 followed | parataxis |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 Kapóza | case |
| 14 | Kapóza | Kapóza | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 tees | nmod |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 maiden | det |
| 16 | maiden | maiden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 Kapóza | amod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 Came | punct |
| 18 | lo | lo | INTJ | _ | 20 Came | discourse |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 lo | punct |
| 20 | Came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 Kapóza | acl:relcl |
| 21 | running | run | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 Came | advcl |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 haste | case |
| 23 | haste | haste | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 running | obl |
| 24 | o'er | o'er | ADP | _ | 27 snow | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 snow | det |
| 26 | drifted | drift | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 27 snow | amod |
| 27 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 running | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 followed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | past | Tis | the trail of the buffalo | the tees of Kapóza parataxis | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trail=Theme | |||
| 2 | come | past | Kapóza not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | run | gerund | Kapóza not said here | haste | o'er the drifted snow | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in haste=Trajectory | |||
| 4 | drift | participle | vn run-51.3.2-2 «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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