Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 4, sentence 83
[c] Hold as sacred the wife of a brother.
What happens: hold · To what, where: c
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: 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 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 2 c | punct |
| 2 | c | c | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 Hold | obl |
| 3 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 2 c | punct |
| 4 | Hold | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | as | as | ADP | _ | 8 wife | case |
| 6 | sacred | sacred | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 wife | amod |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 wife | det |
| 8 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 Hold | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 brother | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 brother | det |
| 11 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 wife | nmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 Hold | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hold | present | c | as the sacred wife of a brother | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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