Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 2, sentence 62
Their wee ones climbed on the father's knee, And played with his plumes of the great Wanmdeè.
Who acts: wee ones · What happens: climb, play · To what, where: knee
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 (wee ones), 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 | Their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 ones | nmod:poss |
| 2 | wee | wee | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 ones | amod |
| 3 | ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 climbed | nsubj |
| 4 | climbed | climb | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 knee | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 father | det |
| 7 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 knee | nmod:poss |
| 8 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 7 father | case |
| 9 | knee | knee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 climbed | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 played | punct |
| 11 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 played | cc |
| 12 | played | play | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 climbed | parataxis |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 plumes | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 plumes | nmod:poss |
| 15 | plumes | plume | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 played | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 Wanmdeè | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Wanmdeè | det |
| 18 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 Wanmdeè | amod |
| 19 | Wanmdeè | Wanmdeè | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 plumes | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 climbed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | climb | participle | tees's wee ones | the father's knee | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on knee=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | play | past | with Chaskè's plumes of the great Wanmdeè | vn play-114.2-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with plume=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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