Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 2, sentence 89
Two hundred white Winters and more have fled from the face of the Summer, Since here by the cataract's roar, in the moon of the red blooming lilies, [71] In the tee of Ta-té-psin [a] was born Winona --wild-rose of the prairies.
Who acts: hundred white Winters, Ta té psin, cataract · What happens: flee, bloom, bear, roar · To what, where: 71, face, a
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 (hundred white Winters, Ta té psin, cataract), 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 | Two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 hundred | compound |
| 2 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 Winters | nummod |
| 3 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Winters | amod |
| 4 | Winters | winter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 fled | nsubj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 more | cc |
| 6 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 Winters | conj |
| 7 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 fled | aux |
| 8 | fled | flee | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 face | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 face | det |
| 11 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 fled | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 Summer | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Summer | det |
| 14 | Summer | Summer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 face | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 here | punct |
| 16 | Since | since | ADP | _ | 17 here | case |
| 17 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 fled | advmod |
| 18 | by | by | ADP | _ | 22 roar | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 cataract | det |
| 20 | cataract | cataract | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 roar | nmod:poss |
| 21 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 20 cataract | case |
| 22 | roar | roar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 here | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 moon | punct |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 moon | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 moon | det |
| 26 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 fled | obl |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 lilies | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 lilies | det |
| 29 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 lilies | amod |
| 30 | blooming | bloom | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 31 lilies | amod |
| 31 | lilies | lily | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 moon | nmod |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 71 | punct |
| 33 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 34 71 | punct |
| 34 | 71 | 71 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 fled | obl |
| 35 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 34 71 | punct |
| 36 | In | in | ADP | _ | 38 tee | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 tee | det |
| 38 | tee | tee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 fled | obl |
| 39 | of | of | ADP | _ | 44 psin | case |
| 40 | Ta | Ta | PROPN | Number=Sing | 44 psin | compound |
| 41 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 40 Ta | punct |
| 42 | té | té | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 psin | compound |
| 43 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 42 té | punct |
| 44 | psin | psin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 tee | nmod |
| 45 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 49 born | punct |
| 46 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 49 born | nsubj:pass |
| 47 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 46 a | punct |
| 48 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 49 born | aux:pass |
| 49 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 44 psin | acl:relcl |
| 50 | Winona | Winona | PROPN | Number=Sing | 49 born | xcomp |
| 51 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 54 rose | punct |
| 52 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 54 rose | amod |
| 53 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 52 wild | punct |
| 54 | rose | rose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 tee | conj |
| 55 | of | of | ADP | _ | 57 prairies | case |
| 56 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 57 prairies | det |
| 57 | prairies | prairie | NOUN | Number=Plur | 54 rose | nmod |
| 58 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 fled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | flee | present · perfect | hundred white Winters | 71 | the face of the Summer | in the moon of the red blooming lilies; in the tee of Ta té psin and wild rose of the prairies | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from face=Initial_Location | ||
| 2 | bloom | gerund | vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | bear | past · passive | Ta té psin not said here | a | Winona xcomp | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||
| 4 | roar | the cataract | nom roar «event intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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