Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 3, sentence 6
Or lifted his dim eyes and sung, in a low voice, the solemn "_Te Deum_."
What happens: lift, sing · To what, where: dim eyes, low voice
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: 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 | Or | or | CCONJ | _ | 2 lifted | cc |
| 2 | lifted | lift | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 4 | dim | dim | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 eyes | amod |
| 5 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 lifted | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 sung | cc |
| 7 | sung | sing | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 lifted | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 voice | punct |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 voice | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 voice | det |
| 11 | low | low | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 voice | amod |
| 12 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 lifted | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 solemn | punct |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 solemn | det |
| 15 | solemn | solemn | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 voice | amod |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 solemn | punct |
| 17 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 19 Deum | punct |
| 18 | Te | Te | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Deum | compound |
| 19 | Deum | Deum | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 lifted | parataxis |
| 20 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 19 Deum | punct |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 Deum | punct |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 Deum | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lift | past | Rice's dim eyes | a low voice | Te Deum parataxis | tree rules | |||
| 2 | sing speech: express | participle | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=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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