Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 4, sentence 104
Being of mystery,--grown in the water-- He gave it to me!
Who acts: mystery · What happens: be, grow, give · To what, where: mystery, water, medicine, me
This is a sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Feast of the Virgins., part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mystery), 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 | Being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 mystery | cop |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 3 mystery | case |
| 3 | mystery | mystery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 gave | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 mystery | punct |
| 5 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 6 grown | punct |
| 6 | grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 mystery | acl |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 water | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 water | det |
| 9 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 grown | obl |
| 10 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 12 gave | punct |
| 11 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 gave | nsubj |
| 12 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 gave | obj |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 me | case |
| 15 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 gave | obl |
| 16 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 12 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | gerund | of mystery | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | grow | participle | mystery not said here | the water | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in water=Location | ||||
| 3 | give | past | mystery | medicine | me | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to i=Recipient |
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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