Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 4, sentence 33
Let him think of Taté [c] and beware, ere he stake his last robe on the trial." "
Who acts: you, Tamdóka · What happens: let, think, beware, ere, stake · To what, where: Tamdóka, last robe, trial
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 (you, Tamdóka), 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 | Let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Let | obj |
| 3 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Let | xcomp |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Taté | case |
| 5 | Taté | Taté | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 think | obl |
| 6 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 7 c | punct |
| 7 | c | c | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 Taté | appos |
| 8 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 7 c | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 beware | cc |
| 10 | beware | beware | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Let | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 ere | punct |
| 12 | ere | ere | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Let | conj |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 stake | nsubj |
| 14 | stake | stake | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 ere | xcomp |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 robe | nmod:poss |
| 16 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 robe | amod |
| 17 | robe | robe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 stake | obj |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 trial | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 trial | det |
| 20 | trial | trial | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 stake | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Let | punct |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Let | punct |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | imperative | you not said here | Tamdóka | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | infinitive | Tamdóka not said here | of Taté | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | beware | infinitive | you not said here | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | ere | infinitive | you not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | stake | infinitive | Tamdóka | Tamdóka's last robe | the trial | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent robe=Patient |
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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