Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 6, sentence 76
In my old age forsaken, alone, must I die in my teepee of hunger?
Who acts: I · What happens: forsake, die · To what, where: old age
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 (I), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 age | case |
| 2 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 age | nmod:poss |
| 3 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 age | amod |
| 4 | age | age | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 die | obl |
| 5 | forsaken | forsake | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 age | acl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 alone | punct |
| 7 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 5 forsaken | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 age | punct |
| 9 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 die | aux |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 die | nsubj |
| 11 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 teepee | case |
| 13 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 teepee | nmod:poss |
| 14 | teepee | teepee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 die | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 hunger | case |
| 16 | hunger | hunger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 teepee | nmod |
| 17 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 11 die | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | forsake | participle | my old age not said here | alone property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | die | must | I | in my old age | in my teepee of hunger | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in age=Attribute |
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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