Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 6, sentence 100
[a] In my old age forsaken and blind!
What happens: forsake · To what, where: old age, a
This is a sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Feast of the Virgins., part 6. 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 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 2 a | punct |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | root | root |
| 3 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 2 a | punct |
| 4 | In | in | ADP | _ | 7 age | case |
| 5 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 age | nmod:poss |
| 6 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 age | amod |
| 7 | age | age | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 forsaken | obl |
| 8 | forsaken | forsake | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 a | acl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 blind | cc |
| 10 | blind | blind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 forsaken | conj |
| 11 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 8 forsaken | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | forsake | participle | in my old age | 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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