Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 3, sentence 29
In the lodge of the Stranger [a] he sat awaiting the crown of a martyr; His sad face compassion begat in the heart of the dark eyed Winona.
Who acts: Chippeway, sad compassion begat · What happens: sit, await, eye, crown · To what, where: Stranger, crown, Winona, lodge, martyr
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 (Chippeway, sad compassion begat), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 lodge | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 lodge | det |
| 3 | lodge | lodge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 eyed | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 Stranger | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Stranger | det |
| 6 | Stranger | stranger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lodge | nmod |
| 7 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 11 sat | punct |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 sat | det |
| 9 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 8 a | punct |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 sat | nsubj |
| 11 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 Stranger | acl:relcl |
| 12 | awaiting | await | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 sat | advcl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 crown | det |
| 14 | crown | crown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 awaiting | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 martyr | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 martyr | det |
| 17 | martyr | martyr | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 crown | nmod |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 begat | punct |
| 19 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 begat | nmod:poss |
| 20 | sad | sad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 begat | amod |
| 21 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 compassion | compound |
| 22 | compassion | compassion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 begat | compound |
| 23 | begat | begat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 eyed | nsubj |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 heart | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 heart | det |
| 26 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 begat | nmod |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 dark | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 dark | det |
| 29 | dark | dark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 heart | nmod |
| 30 | eyed | eye | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 31 | Winona | Winona | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 eyed | obj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 30 eyed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | past | Chippeway | the Stranger not said here | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location stranger=Theme | ||||
| 2 | await | gerund | Chippeway not said here | the crown of a martyr | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | eye | past | Chippeway's sad compassion begat in the heart of the dark | Winona | the lodge of the Stranger | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer winona=Stimulus | |||
| 4 | crown | a martyr | nom crown «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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