Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 6, sentence 72
Now open thine ear to my voice, and thy heart to the wish of thy father, And long will Winona rejoice that she heeded the words of Ta-té-psin.
Who acts: long Winona, Winona, father · What happens: rejoice, heed, wish, word · To what, where: words, Ta té psin
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 (long Winona, Winona, father), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 open | advmod |
| 2 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 3 | thine | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 4 ear | nmod:poss |
| 4 | ear | ear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 open | nsubj |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 voice | case |
| 6 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 voice | nmod:poss |
| 7 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 open | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 heart | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 heart | cc |
| 10 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 11 heart | nmod:poss |
| 11 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 open | conj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 wish | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 wish | det |
| 14 | wish | wish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 heart | nmod |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 father | case |
| 16 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 17 father | nmod:poss |
| 17 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 wish | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 rejoice | punct |
| 19 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 rejoice | cc |
| 20 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 Winona | amod |
| 21 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 Winona | aux |
| 22 | Winona | Winona | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 rejoice | nsubj |
| 23 | rejoice | rejoice | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 open | conj |
| 24 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 26 heeded | mark |
| 25 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 heeded | nsubj |
| 26 | heeded | heed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 rejoice | ccomp |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 words | det |
| 28 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 heeded | obj |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 psin | case |
| 30 | Ta | Ta | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 psin | compound |
| 31 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 30 Ta | punct |
| 32 | té | té | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 psin | compound |
| 33 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 32 té | punct |
| 34 | psin | psin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 words | nmod |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 open | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rejoice | infinitive | long Winona | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | heed | past | Winona | the words of Ta té psin | vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Theme | ||||
| 4 | wish | thy father | nom wish «feeling intransitive»: of=agent | ||||||
| 5 | word | Ta té psin | nom word «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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