Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 2, sentence 84
And here with a shudder they heard, flying far from his tee in the mountains, Wa-kin-yan, [32] the huge Thunder-Bird, --with the arrows of fire in his talons.
Who acts: spirits · What happens: hear, fly · To what, where: huge Thunder Bird, talons, tee · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (spirits), 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 | _ | 2 here | cc |
| 2 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 heard | advmod |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 shudder | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 shudder | det |
| 5 | shudder | shudder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 here | obl |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 heard | nsubj |
| 7 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 flying | punct |
| 9 | flying | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 31 Bird | csubj |
| 10 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 9 flying | advmod |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 tee | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 tee | nmod:poss |
| 13 | tee | tee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 flying | obl |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 mountains | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 mountains | det |
| 16 | mountains | mountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 tee | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 yan | punct |
| 18 | Wa | Wa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 yan | compound |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 Wa | punct |
| 20 | kin | kin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 yan | compound |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 kin | punct |
| 22 | yan | yan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 tee | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 32 | punct |
| 24 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 25 32 | punct |
| 25 | 32 | 32 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 22 yan | appos |
| 26 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 25 32 | punct |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 Bird | det |
| 28 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 Bird | amod |
| 29 | Thunder | thunder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 Bird | compound |
| 30 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 29 Thunder | punct |
| 31 | Bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 heard | obj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 arrows | punct |
| 33 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 36 arrows | punct |
| 34 | with | with | ADP | _ | 36 arrows | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 arrows | det |
| 36 | arrows | arrow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 Bird | conj |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 fire | case |
| 38 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 arrows | nmod |
| 39 | in | in | ADP | _ | 41 talons | case |
| 40 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 41 talons | nmod:poss |
| 41 | talons | talon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 heard | obl |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | spirits = spirit | the huge Thunder Bird and the arrows of fire | Oft's talons; here | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer bird=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | fly | gerund | Oft's tee in the mountains and Wa kin yan | far property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from tee=Trajectory |
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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