Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 3, sentence 7
Or Latin, or Hebrew, or Greek --all the same were his words to the warriors,-- All the same to the maids and the meek, wide-wondering-eyed, hazel-brown children.
What happens: be · To what, where: same words
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 | _ | 12 same | cc |
| 2 | Latin | Latin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 same | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 Greek | punct |
| 4 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 8 Greek | cc |
| 5 | Hebrew | Hebrew | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Greek | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 Greek | punct |
| 7 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 8 Greek | cc |
| 8 | Greek | Greek | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 Latin | conj |
| 9 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 12 same | punct |
| 10 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 same | det:predet |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 same | det |
| 12 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 words | amod |
| 13 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 words | cop |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 words | nmod:poss |
| 15 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 warriors | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 warriors | det |
| 18 | warriors | warrior | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 words | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 same | punct |
| 20 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 23 same | punct |
| 21 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 23 same | det:predet |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 same | det |
| 23 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 words | appos |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 maids | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 maids | det |
| 26 | maids | maid | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 same | obl |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 children | cc |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 children | det |
| 29 | meek | meek | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 children | amod |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 wondering | punct |
| 31 | wide | wide | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 wondering | amod |
| 32 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 31 wide | punct |
| 33 | wondering | wondering | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 meek | appos |
| 34 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 33 wondering | punct |
| 35 | eyed | eyed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 children | amod |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 eyed | punct |
| 37 | hazel | hazel | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 brown | amod |
| 38 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 37 hazel | punct |
| 39 | brown | brown | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 children | amod |
| 40 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 maids | conj |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 words | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Hebrew's same words | to the warriors; Hebrew nmod:poss | tree rules |
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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