Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 5, sentence 30
She was pale, and her hurried voice swelled with alarm as she questioned replying "Tamdóka thy guide? --I beheld thy death in his face at the races!
Who acts: Ta, hurried voice, thy · What happens: be, hurry, swell, question, reply, behold · To what, where: Tamdóka, death, face · Speech: someone speaks here
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: who acts (Ta, hurried voice, thy), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 pale | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 pale | cop |
| 3 | pale | pale | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 swelled | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 swelled | cc |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 voice | nmod:poss |
| 7 | hurried | hurry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 voice | amod |
| 8 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 swelled | nsubj |
| 9 | swelled | swell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 pale | parataxis |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 alarm | case |
| 11 | alarm | alarm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 swelled | obl |
| 12 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 14 questioned | mark |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 questioned | nsubj |
| 14 | questioned | question | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 swelled | advcl |
| 15 | replying | reply | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 questioned | xcomp |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 Tamdóka | punct |
| 17 | Tamdóka | Tamdóka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 replying | obj |
| 18 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 19 guide | nmod:poss |
| 19 | guide | guide | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 Tamdóka | appos |
| 20 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 17 Tamdóka | punct |
| 21 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 23 beheld | punct |
| 22 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 beheld | nsubj |
| 23 | beheld | behold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 swelled | conj |
| 24 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 25 death | nmod:poss |
| 25 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 beheld | obj |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 face | case |
| 27 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 face | nmod:poss |
| 28 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 beheld | obl |
| 29 | at | at | ADP | _ | 31 races | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 races | det |
| 31 | races | race | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 beheld | obl |
| 32 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 pale | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Ta | pale property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | hurry | participle | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | swell | past | Ta's hurried voice | with alarm | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 4 | question speech: other | past | Ta | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | reply speech: ask | gerund | Ta not said here | Tamdóka | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent tamdóka=Topic | ||||
| 6 | behold in a quote | past | Ta | thy death | Tamdóka's face | at the races | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer death=Stimulus | ||
| 7 | die in a quote | thy | nom death «event intransitive»: 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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