Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 6, sentence 66
He laid his thin, shriveled hand on her tresses, "Winona my daughter," he said, "no longer thy father beholds thee; But he feels the long locks of thy hair, and the days that are gone are remembered, When Sisóka [a] sat faithful and fair in the lodge of swift footed Ta-té-psin.
Who acts: dog, father, days, swift · What happens: lay, shrivel, say, behold, feel, be · To what, where: thin shriveled hand, tresses, thee, long locks, days, lodge · Speech: someone speaks here
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: who acts (dog, father, days, swift), 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 laid | nsubj |
| 2 | laid | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 said | ccomp |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 hand | nmod:poss |
| 4 | thin | thin | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 hand | amod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 thin | punct |
| 6 | shriveled | shrivel | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 hand | amod |
| 7 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 laid | obj |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 tresses | case |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 tresses | nmod:poss |
| 10 | tresses | tress | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 laid | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 Winona | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 Winona | punct |
| 13 | Winona | Winona | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 tresses | nmod |
| 14 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 15 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 Winona | appos |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 laid | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 laid | punct |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 said | nsubj |
| 19 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 beholds | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 beholds | punct |
| 22 | no | no | ADV | _ | 23 longer | advmod |
| 23 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 26 beholds | advmod |
| 24 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 25 father | nmod:poss |
| 25 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 beholds | nsubj |
| 26 | beholds | behold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 said | conj |
| 27 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 26 beholds | obj |
| 28 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 31 feels | punct |
| 29 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 31 feels | cc |
| 30 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 feels | nsubj |
| 31 | feels | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 said | conj |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 locks | det |
| 33 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 locks | amod |
| 34 | locks | lock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 feels | obj |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 hair | case |
| 36 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 37 hair | nmod:poss |
| 37 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 locks | nmod |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 remembered | punct |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 46 remembered | cc |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 days | det |
| 41 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 46 remembered | nsubj:pass |
| 42 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 44 gone | nsubj |
| 43 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 44 gone | cop |
| 44 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 41 days | acl:relcl |
| 45 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 46 remembered | aux:pass |
| 46 | remembered | remember | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 31 feels | advcl |
| 47 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 49 Sisóka | punct |
| 48 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 49 Sisóka | advmod |
| 49 | Sisóka | Sisóka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 46 remembered | obl |
| 50 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 51 a | punct |
| 51 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 49 Sisóka | conj |
| 52 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 53 sat | punct |
| 53 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 51 a | acl:relcl |
| 54 | faithful | faithful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 53 sat | xcomp |
| 55 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 56 fair | cc |
| 56 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 54 faithful | conj |
| 57 | in | in | ADP | _ | 59 lodge | case |
| 58 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 59 lodge | det |
| 59 | lodge | lodge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 53 sat | obl |
| 60 | of | of | ADP | _ | 61 swift | case |
| 61 | swift | swift | NOUN | Number=Sing | 59 lodge | nmod |
| 62 | footed | foot | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 61 swift | acl |
| 63 | Ta | Ta | PROPN | Number=Sing | 67 psin | compound |
| 64 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 63 Ta | punct |
| 65 | té | té | NOUN | Number=Sing | 67 psin | compound |
| 66 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 65 té | punct |
| 67 | psin | psin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 62 footed | obj |
| 68 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lay | past | dog | dog's thin shriveled hand | Winona's tresses Winona | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent hand=Theme on tress=Destination | |||
| 2 | shrivel | participle | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | dog | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | behold in a quote | present | thy father | thee | long property | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thou=Stimulus | |||
| 5 | feel in a quote | present | dog | the long locks of thy hair | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lock=Theme | ||||
| 6 | is in a quote | present | the days | go property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | remember in a quote | present · passive | the days | Sisóka obl | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 8 | sit in a quote | past | the lodge of swift | faithful property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in lodge=Location | ||||
| 9 | foot in a quote | participle | swift not said here | Ta té psin | 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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