Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 4, sentence 75
But hearken ye now to my words, --let them sound in your bosoms forever.
Who acts: you, words, my, your · What happens: hearken, let, sound, word, bosom · To what, where: ye, words, bosoms
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, words, my, your), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 2 hearken | cc |
| 2 | hearken | hearken | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 2 hearken | obj |
| 4 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 hearken | advmod |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 words | case |
| 6 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 words | nmod:poss |
| 7 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 hearken | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 let | punct |
| 9 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 10 let | punct |
| 10 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 hearken | conj |
| 11 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 let | obj |
| 12 | sound | sound | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 let | xcomp |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 bosoms | case |
| 14 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 bosoms | nmod:poss |
| 15 | bosoms | bosom | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 sound | obl |
| 16 | forever | forever | ADV | _ | 12 sound | advmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 hearken | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hearken | imperative | you not said here | ye | now | to my words | tree rules | ||
| 2 | let | infinitive | you not said here | words = word | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | sound | infinitive | words = word not said here | your bosoms | forever property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in bosom=Location | |||
| 4 | word | my | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 5 | bosom | your | nom bosom «state transitive»: poss=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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