Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 5, sentence 65
He dines on the fat of the pemmican-sack, And his _eau de vie_ is the _eau de lac_.
Who acts: Merry, _ eau de, _ · What happens: dine, vie, be · To what, where: _ de lac
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 (Merry, _ eau de, _), 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 dines | nsubj |
| 2 | dines | dine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 fat | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 fat | det |
| 5 | fat | fat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 dines | obl |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 sack | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 sack | det |
| 8 | pemmican | pemmican | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sack | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 pemmican | punct |
| 10 | sack | sack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 fat | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 vie | punct |
| 12 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 vie | cc |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 de | nmod:poss |
| 14 | _ | _ | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 de | amod |
| 15 | eau | eau | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 de | compound |
| 16 | de | de | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 vie | nsubj |
| 17 | vie | vie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 dines | conj |
| 18 | _ | _ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 lac | nsubj |
| 19 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 lac | cop |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 lac | det |
| 21 | _ | _ | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 lac | amod |
| 22 | eau | eau | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 de | compound |
| 23 | de | de | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 lac | compound |
| 24 | lac | lac | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 vie | ccomp |
| 25 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 17 vie | punct |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 dines | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dine | present | Merry | on the fat of the pemmican sack | vn dine-39.5 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent on fat=Patient | ||||
| 2 | vie | present | Merry's _ eau de | vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a | present | _ | the _ de lac | tree rules |
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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