Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 4, sentence 69
By the friction of white-cedar wood for the feast was a Virgin-fire [20] kindled.
Who acts: Virgin fire · What happens: be, kindle · To what, where: Virgin fire
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 (Virgin fire), 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 | By | by | ADP | _ | 3 friction | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 friction | det |
| 3 | friction | friction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 fire | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 wood | case |
| 5 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 wood | amod |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 white | punct |
| 7 | cedar | cedar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 wood | compound |
| 8 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 friction | nmod |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 feast | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 feast | det |
| 11 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 wood | nmod |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 fire | cop |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 fire | det |
| 14 | Virgin | virgin | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 fire | amod |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 Virgin | punct |
| 16 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 kindled | nsubj |
| 17 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 18 20 | punct |
| 18 | 20 | 20 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 16 fire | appos |
| 19 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 18 20 | punct |
| 20 | kindled | kindle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 kindled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | a Virgin fire | by the friction of white cedar wood for the feast; 20 appos | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | kindle | past | a Virgin fire | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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