Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 5, sentence 39
[b] Lift thy voice to his spirit in need, and his spirit will hear thee and answer; For often he comes to my aid; he is stronger than all the Dakotas; And the Spirits of evil, afraid, hide away when he looks from the heavens."
Who acts: Lift · What happens: hear, answer, come, be, hide away, look · To what, where: thee, aid
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 (Lift), 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 b | punct |
| 2 | b | b | NUM | _ | 4 Lift | discourse |
| 3 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 2 b | punct |
| 4 | Lift | Lift | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 hear | nsubj |
| 5 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 6 voice | nmod:poss |
| 6 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 Lift | nmod |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 spirit | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 spirit | nmod:poss |
| 9 | spirit | spirit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 voice | nmod |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 need | case |
| 11 | need | need | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 spirit | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 hear | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 hear | cc |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 spirit | nmod:poss |
| 15 | spirit | spirit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 hear | nsubj |
| 16 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 hear | aux |
| 17 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 18 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 17 hear | obj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 answer | cc |
| 20 | answer | answer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 hear | conj |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 comes | punct |
| 22 | For | for | ADP | _ | 23 often | case |
| 23 | often | often | ADV | _ | 25 comes | advmod |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 comes | nsubj |
| 25 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 hear | parataxis |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 aid | case |
| 27 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 aid | nmod:poss |
| 28 | aid | aid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 comes | obl |
| 29 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 32 stronger | punct |
| 30 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 stronger | nsubj |
| 31 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 stronger | cop |
| 32 | stronger | strong | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 17 hear | parataxis |
| 33 | than | than | ADP | _ | 36 Dakotas | case |
| 34 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 36 Dakotas | det:predet |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 Dakotas | det |
| 36 | Dakotas | dakota | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 stronger | obl |
| 37 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 44 afraid | punct |
| 38 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 afraid | cc |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 Spirits | det |
| 40 | Spirits | spirit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 44 afraid | nsubj |
| 41 | of | of | ADP | _ | 42 evil | case |
| 42 | evil | evil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 Spirits | nmod |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 afraid | punct |
| 44 | afraid | afraid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 hear | parataxis |
| 45 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 hide | punct |
| 46 | hide | hide | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 44 afraid | conj |
| 47 | away | away | ADV | _ | 46 hide | advmod |
| 48 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 50 looks | mark |
| 49 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 50 looks | nsubj |
| 50 | looks | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 46 hide | advcl |
| 51 | from | from | ADP | _ | 53 heavens | case |
| 52 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 53 heavens | det |
| 53 | heavens | heaven | NOUN | Number=Plur | 50 looks | obl |
| 54 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 hear | punct |
| 55 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 hear | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | future | Lift thy voice to Lift's spirit in need | thee | Lift's spirit nsubj | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer thou=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | infinitive | Lift thy voice to Lift's spirit in need not said here | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | come | present | Lift | my aid | often property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to aid=Initial_Location | |||
| 4 | is | present | Lift | than all Dakotas; strong property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | hide away | infinitive | Lift thy voice to Lift's spirit in need not said here | away property | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | look | present | Lift | from the heavens | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent from heaven=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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