Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 6, sentence 24
Of the deed in the wilderness spake, to the brave Chief, the frank-hearted Frenchman.
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 | Of | of | ADP | _ | 3 deed | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 deed | det |
| 3 | deed | deed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 Chief | obl |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 spake | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 spake | det |
| 6 | wilderness | wilderness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 spake | compound |
| 7 | spake | speak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 deed | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 Chief | punct |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 Chief | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Chief | det |
| 11 | brave | brave | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 Chief | amod |
| 12 | Chief | Chief | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 Frenchman | punct |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Frenchman | det |
| 15 | frank | frank | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 hearted | amod |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 frank | punct |
| 17 | hearted | hearted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 Frenchman | amod |
| 18 | Frenchman | frenchman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 Chief | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 Chief | punct |
Pragmatics
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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