Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 3, sentence 79
The red lilies bloomed in her face, and her glad eyes gave thanks to the giver, And forth from her teepee apace she brought him the robe and the missal Of the father--poor Renè Menard; and related the tale of the "Black Robe."
Who acts: red lilies, land, Black Robe · What happens: bloom, give, bring, relate, tell · To what, where: red lilies, face, thanks, giver, teepee apace, robe · 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 (red lilies, land, Black Robe), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 lilies | det |
| 2 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 lilies | amod |
| 3 | lilies | lily | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 gave | nsubj |
| 4 | bloomed | bloom | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 lilies | acl |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 face | case |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 face | nmod:poss |
| 7 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bloomed | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 gave | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 gave | cc |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 11 | glad | glad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 eyes | amod |
| 12 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 gave | nsubj |
| 13 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | thanks | thanks | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 gave | obj |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 giver | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 giver | det |
| 17 | giver | giver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 thanks | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 apace | punct |
| 19 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 apace | cc |
| 20 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 24 apace | advmod |
| 21 | from | from | ADP | _ | 24 apace | case |
| 22 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 apace | nmod:poss |
| 23 | teepee | teepee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 apace | compound |
| 24 | apace | apace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 gave | obl |
| 25 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 brought | nsubj |
| 26 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 apace | acl:relcl |
| 27 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 brought | obj |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 robe | det |
| 29 | robe | robe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 brought | obj |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 missal | cc |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 missal | det |
| 32 | missal | missal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 robe | conj |
| 33 | Of | of | ADP | _ | 35 father | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 father | det |
| 35 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 missal | nmod |
| 36 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 38 Renè | punct |
| 37 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 Renè | amod |
| 38 | Renè | Renè | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 father | appos |
| 39 | Menard | Menard | PROPN | Number=Sing | 38 Renè | flat |
| 40 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 42 related | punct |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 related | cc |
| 42 | related | relate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 gave | conj |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 tale | det |
| 44 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 related | obj |
| 45 | of | of | ADP | _ | 49 Robe | case |
| 46 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 49 Robe | det |
| 47 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 49 Robe | punct |
| 48 | Black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 49 Robe | amod |
| 49 | Robe | Robe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 44 tale | nmod |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 gave | punct |
| 51 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bloom | participle | the red lilies not said here | land's face | vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in face=Location | ||||
| 2 | give | past | the red lilies | thanks | the giver | land's teepee apace | land's glad eyes nsubj | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent thanks=Theme to giver=Recipient | |
| 3 | bring | past | land | the robe and the missal of the father | face | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent he=Destination robe=Theme | |||
| 4 | relate | past | the red lilies not said here | the tale of the Black Robe | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tale=Theme | ||||
| 5 | tell | the Black Robe | nom tale «communication intransitive»: of=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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