Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 4, sentence 15
And death to the lips that betray is the doom of the swarthy avengers, And the son of tall Wazí-kuté was the chief of the mystical order.
Who acts: lips, death, son · What happens: betray, be · To what, where: doom, chief
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 (lips, death, son), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 doom | cc |
| 2 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 doom | nsubj |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 lips | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 lips | det |
| 5 | lips | lip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 death | nmod |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 betray | nsubj |
| 7 | betray | betray | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 lips | acl:relcl |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 doom | cop |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 doom | det |
| 10 | doom | doom | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 avengers | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 avengers | det |
| 13 | swarthy | swarthy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 avengers | amod |
| 14 | avengers | avenger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 doom | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 chief | punct |
| 16 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 chief | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 son | det |
| 18 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 chief | nsubj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 kuté | case |
| 20 | tall | tall | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 kuté | amod |
| 21 | Wazí | Wazí | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 kuté | compound |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 Wazí | punct |
| 23 | kuté | kuté | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 son | nmod |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 chief | cop |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 chief | det |
| 26 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 doom | conj |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 order | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 order | det |
| 29 | mystical | mystical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 order | amod |
| 30 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 chief | nmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 doom | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | betray | present | the lips | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | is a | present | death to the lips | the doom and the chief | of the swarthy avengers | tree rules | |||
| 3 | is a | past | the son of tall Wazí kuté | the chief | of the mystical order | 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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