Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 5, sentence 31

He covers his heart with a smile, but revenge never sleeps in his bosom; His tongue--it is soft to beguile; but beware of the pur of the panther!

Who acts: Tamdóka, revenge, it · What happens: cover, not sleep, be, beguile, beware, bosom · To what, where: heart, tongue, bosom

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 (Tamdóka, revenge, it), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 covers	nsubj
2	covers	cover	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 heart	nmod:poss
4	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 covers	obj
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 smile	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 smile	det
7	smile	smile	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 covers	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 sleeps	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 sleeps	cc
10	revenge	revenge	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 sleeps	nsubj
11	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	12 sleeps	advmod
12	sleeps	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 covers	conj
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 bosom	case
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 bosom	nmod:poss
15	bosom	bosom	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 sleeps	obl
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 tongue	punct
17	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 tongue	nmod:poss
18	tongue	tongue	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 sleeps	obl
19	--	--	PUNCT	_	22 soft	punct
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 soft	nsubj
21	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 soft	cop
22	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 tongue	conj
23	to	to	PART	_	24 beguile	mark
24	beguile	beguile	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 soft	xcomp
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 beware	punct
26	but	but	CCONJ	_	27 beware	cc
27	beware	beware	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 covers	parataxis
28	of	of	ADP	_	30 pur	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 pur	det
30	pur	pur	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 beware	obl
31	of	of	ADP	_	33 panther	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 panther	det
33	panther	panther	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 pur	nmod
34	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 covers	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	cover	present	Tamdóka	Tamdóka's heart		with a smile	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent heart=Destination with smile=Theme
2	not sleep	present	revenge	Tamdóka's tongue	Tamdóka's bosom		vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in bosom=Location
3	is	present	it			soft property	tree rules
4	beguile	to-infinitive					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
5	beware	infinitive				of the pur of the panther	vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
6	bosom		Tamdóka				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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🌲 Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 5, sentence 31

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 5, sentence 31