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Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 3, sentence 24

His prayer book the hunters revered, --they deemed it a marvelous spirit; It spoke and the white father heard, --it interpreted visions and omens.

Who acts: prayer book, hunters, book, white father · What happens: revere, deem, speak, hear, interpret · To what, where: book, visions · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Feast of the Virgins., part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prayer book, hunters, book, white father), 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

nmod:posscompoundnsubjdetnsubjpunctpunctnsubjconjobjdetamodobjpunctnsubjparataxisccdetamodnsubjconjpunctpunctnsubjconjobjccconjpunctrootHisPRONprayerNOUNbookNOUNtheDEThuntersNOUNreveredVERB,PUNCT--PUNCTtheyPRONdeemedVERBitPRONaDETmarvelousADJspiritNOUN;PUNCTItPRONspokeVERBandCCONJtheDETwhiteADJfatherNOUNheardVERB,PUNCT--PUNCTitPRONinterpretedVERBvisionsNOUNandCCONJomensNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1HishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs3 booknmod:poss
2prayerprayerNOUNNumber=Sing3 bookcompound
3bookbookNOUNNumber=Sing6 reverednsubj
4thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art5 huntersdet
5huntershunterNOUNNumber=Plur6 reverednsubj
6reveredrevereVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
7,,PUNCT_10 deemedpunct
8----PUNCT_10 deemedpunct
9theytheyPRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs10 deemednsubj
10deemeddeemVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin6 reveredconj
11ititPRONCase=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs10 deemedobj
12aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art14 spiritdet
13marvelousmarvelousADJDegree=Pos14 spiritamod
14spiritspiritNOUNNumber=Sing10 deemedobj
15;;PUNCT_17 spokepunct
16ItitPRONCase=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs17 spokensubj
17spokespeakVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin6 reveredparataxis
18andandCCONJ_22 heardcc
19thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art21 fatherdet
20whitewhiteADJDegree=Pos21 fatheramod
21fatherfatherNOUNNumber=Sing22 heardnsubj
22heardhearVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin17 spokeconj
23,,PUNCT_26 interpretedpunct
24----PUNCT_26 interpretedpunct
25ititPRONCase=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs26 interpretednsubj
26interpretedinterpretVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin22 heardconj
27visionsvisionNOUNNumber=Plur26 interpretedobj
28andandCCONJ_29 omenscc
29omensomenNOUNNumber=Plur27 visionsconj
30..PUNCT_6 reveredpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1reverepastFather's prayer bookthe hunters nsubjvn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
2deempasthunters = hunterbooka marvelous spirit objvn consider-29.9-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent it=Theme spirit=Attribute
3speak speech: otherpastbookvn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4hearpastthe white fathervn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer
5interpretpastbookvisions and omensvn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent vision=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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