Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 5, sentence 16
And her father, once strong and renowned, is bent with the weight of his winters.
What happens: bend · To what, where: father
This is a sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Feast of the Virgins., part 5. 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 bent | cc |
| 2 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 father | nmod:poss |
| 3 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 bent | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 strong | punct |
| 5 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 6 strong | advmod |
| 6 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 father | amod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 renowned | cc |
| 8 | renowned | renowned | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 strong | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 father | punct |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 bent | aux:pass |
| 11 | bent | bend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 weight | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 weight | det |
| 14 | weight | weight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 bent | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 winters | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 winters | nmod:poss |
| 17 | winters | winter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 weight | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 bent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bend | present · passive | Tanké's father | with the weight of chief's winters | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with weight=Instrument |
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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