Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 4, sentence 53
Tamdóka is swift, but forsooth, the tongue of his mother is swifter," She said, and her face was aflame with the red of the rose and the lily, And loud was the roar of acclaim; but dark was the face of Tamdóka.
Who acts: Tamdóka, tongue, wife, face, roar, acclaim · What happens: be, say, roar · To what, where: swifter · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Tamdóka, tongue, wife, face), 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 | Tamdóka | Tamdóka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 swift | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 swift | cop |
| 3 | swift | swift | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 forsooth | punct |
| 5 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 forsooth | cc |
| 6 | forsooth | forsooth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 swift | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 swifter | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 tongue | det |
| 9 | tongue | tongue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 swifter | nsubj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 mother | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 mother | nmod:poss |
| 12 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 tongue | nmod |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 swifter | cop |
| 14 | swifter | swifter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 swift | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 said | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 said | punct |
| 17 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 said | nsubj |
| 18 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 swifter | parataxis |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 aflame | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 aflame | cc |
| 21 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 face | nmod:poss |
| 22 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 aflame | nsubj |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 aflame | cop |
| 24 | aflame | aflame | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 said | ccomp |
| 25 | with | with | ADP | _ | 27 red | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 red | det |
| 27 | red | Red | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 aflame | obl |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 rose | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 rose | det |
| 30 | rose | rose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 aflame | obl |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 lily | cc |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 lily | det |
| 33 | lily | lily | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 rose | conj |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 loud | punct |
| 35 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 loud | cc |
| 36 | loud | loud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 aflame | conj |
| 37 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 loud | parataxis |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 roar | det |
| 39 | roar | roar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 was | nsubj |
| 40 | of | of | ADP | _ | 41 acclaim | case |
| 41 | acclaim | acclaim | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 roar | nmod |
| 42 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 44 dark | punct |
| 43 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 44 dark | cc |
| 44 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 swift | conj |
| 45 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 44 dark | cop |
| 46 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 47 face | det |
| 47 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 was | nsubj |
| 48 | of | of | ADP | _ | 49 Tamdóka | case |
| 49 | Tamdóka | Tamdóka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 47 face | nmod |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 swift | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Tamdóka | swift property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | Tamdóka not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | is a | present | the tongue of Tamdóka's mother | swifter | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | wife | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | is in a quote | past | wife's face | with the red; of the rose and the lily; aflame property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | be in a quote | wife's face not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 7 | be in a quote | past | the roar of acclaim | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 8 | is in a quote | past | Tamdóka not said here | dark property | tree rules | ||||
| 9 | roar in a quote | acclaim | nom roar «event intransitive»: of=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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