Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 3, sentence 82
But more spake her blushes, I ween, and her eyes full of language unspoken, As she turned with the grace of a queen, and carried her gifts to the teepee.
Who acts: I, land · What happens: ween, turn, carry, blush, gift · To what, where: eyes, gifts, teepee
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 (I, land), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 spake | cc |
| 2 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 3 spake | advmod |
| 3 | spake | speak | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 blushes | nmod:poss |
| 5 | blushes | blush | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 spake | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 ween | punct |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 ween | nsubj |
| 8 | ween | ween | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 spake | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 eyes | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 eyes | cc |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 12 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 ween | obj |
| 13 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 eyes | amod |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 language | case |
| 15 | language | language | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 full | obl |
| 16 | unspoken | unspoken | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 language | amod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 turned | punct |
| 18 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 20 turned | mark |
| 19 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 turned | nsubj |
| 20 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 ween | parataxis |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 grace | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 grace | det |
| 23 | grace | grace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 turned | obl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 queen | case |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 queen | det |
| 26 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 grace | nmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 carried | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 carried | cc |
| 29 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 turned | conj |
| 30 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 gifts | nmod:poss |
| 31 | gifts | gift | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 carried | obj |
| 32 | to | to | ADP | _ | 34 teepee | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 teepee | det |
| 34 | teepee | teepee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 carried | obl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 spake | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ween | present | I | land's eyes | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | turn | past | land | with the grace of a queen | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | carry | past | land not said here | land's gifts | the teepee | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent gift=Theme to teepee=Destination | |||
| 5 | blush | land | nom blush «state intransitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 6 | gift | land | nom gift «possession transitive»: poss=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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