Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 4, sentence 14
A band of sworn brothers are they, and the secrets of each one are sacred.
Who acts: band · What happens: swear, be
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 (band), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 band | det |
| 2 | band | band | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 sacred | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 brothers | case |
| 4 | sworn | swear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 brothers | amod |
| 5 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 band | nmod |
| 6 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 sacred | cop |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 sacred | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 sacred | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 sacred | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 secrets | det |
| 11 | secrets | secret | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 sacred | nsubj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 one | case |
| 13 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 one | det |
| 14 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 secrets | nmod |
| 15 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 sacred | cop |
| 16 | sacred | sacred | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 sacred | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | swear | participle | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | is | present | a band of sworn brothers | multitudes = multitude nsubj; the secrets of each one nsubj; sacred property | 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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