Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 4, sentence 79
Ye are men that I choose for my own; ye shall be as a strong band of brothers, Now I give you the magical bone and the magical pouch of the spirits.
Who acts: Ye, I · What happens: be, choose, give · To what, where: men, magical bone, you
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 (Ye, I), 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 | Ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 3 men | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 men | cop |
| 3 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 choose | obj |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 choose | nsubj |
| 6 | choose | choose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 men | acl:relcl |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 own | case |
| 8 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 own | nmod:poss |
| 9 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 choose | obl |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 band | punct |
| 11 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 17 band | nsubj |
| 12 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 band | aux |
| 13 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 band | cop |
| 14 | as | as | ADP | _ | 17 band | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 band | det |
| 16 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 band | amod |
| 17 | band | band | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 men | conj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 brothers | case |
| 19 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 band | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 give | punct |
| 21 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 23 give | advmod |
| 22 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 give | nsubj |
| 23 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 men | conj |
| 24 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 give | iobj |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 bone | det |
| 26 | magical | magical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 bone | amod |
| 27 | bone | bone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 give | obj |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 pouch | cc |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 pouch | det |
| 30 | magical | magical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 pouch | amod |
| 31 | pouch | pouch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 bone | conj |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 spirits | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 spirits | det |
| 34 | spirits | spirit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 pouch | nmod |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 men | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Ye | men and a strong band | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | choose | present | I | men and a strong band | for my own | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent that=Theme for own=Beneficiary | |||
| 3 | is | shall | ye | as a strong band; of brothers | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | give | present | I | the magical bone and the magical pouch of the spirits | you | now | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient bone=Theme |
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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