Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 3, sentence 81
[76] For the "Black Robe" spake much of his youth and his friends in the Land of the Sunrise; It was then as a dream, now in truth, I behold them, and not in a vision."
Who acts: robe, I · What happens: be, behold · To what, where: friends, truth, 76
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 (robe, I), 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 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 2 76 | punct |
| 2 | 76 | 76 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
| 3 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 2 76 | punct |
| 4 | For | for | ADP | _ | 10 spake | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 spake | det |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 Robe | punct |
| 7 | Black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 Robe | amod |
| 8 | Robe | Robe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 spake | compound |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 spake | punct |
| 10 | spake | speak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 76 | nmod |
| 11 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 spake | amod |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 youth | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 youth | nmod:poss |
| 14 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 much | nmod |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 friends | cc |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 friends | nmod:poss |
| 17 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 youth | conj |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 Land | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Land | det |
| 20 | Land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 friends | nmod |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 Sunrise | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 Sunrise | det |
| 23 | Sunrise | sunrise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 Land | nmod |
| 24 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 30 dream | punct |
| 25 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 dream | nsubj |
| 26 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 dream | cop |
| 27 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 30 dream | advmod |
| 28 | as | as | ADP | _ | 30 dream | case |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 dream | det |
| 30 | dream | dream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 76 | conj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 behold | punct |
| 32 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 37 behold | advmod |
| 33 | in | in | ADP | _ | 34 truth | case |
| 34 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 behold | obl |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 truth | punct |
| 36 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 37 behold | nsubj |
| 37 | behold | behold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 dream | conj |
| 38 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 behold | obj |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 vision | punct |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 vision | cc |
| 41 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 44 vision | advmod |
| 42 | in | in | ADP | _ | 44 vision | case |
| 43 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 44 vision | det |
| 44 | vision | vision | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 dream | appos |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 44 vision | punct |
| 46 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 44 vision | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | robe | then | as a dream; a vision appos | tree rules | |||
| 2 | behold | present | I | friends = friend | truth | now | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus |
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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