Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 6, sentence 77
Winona, Tamdóka can make my empty lodge laugh with abundance; For thine aged and blind father's sake, to the son of the Chief speak the promise.
Who acts: Winona, empty lodge, sake · What happens: make, laugh, speak · To what, where: empty lodge, promise · 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 (Winona, empty lodge, sake), 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 | Winona | Winona | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 make | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Winona | punct |
| 3 | Tamdóka | Tamdóka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Winona | flat |
| 4 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 make | aux |
| 5 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 lodge | nmod:poss |
| 7 | empty | empty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 lodge | amod |
| 8 | lodge | lodge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 make | obj |
| 9 | laugh | laugh | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 make | xcomp |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 abundance | case |
| 11 | abundance | abundance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 laugh | obl |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 sake | punct |
| 13 | For | for | ADP | _ | 20 sake | case |
| 14 | thine | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 18 father | nmod:poss |
| 15 | aged | aged | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 father | amod |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 blind | cc |
| 17 | blind | blind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 aged | conj |
| 18 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 sake | nmod:poss |
| 19 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 18 father | case |
| 20 | sake | sake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 speak | nsubj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 son | punct |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 son | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 son | det |
| 24 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 sake | conj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 Chief | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 Chief | det |
| 27 | Chief | Chief | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 son | nmod |
| 28 | speak | speak | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 make | parataxis |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 promise | det |
| 30 | promise | promise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 speak | obj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 make | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | can | Winona | my empty lodge | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | laugh | infinitive | my empty lodge not said here | with abundance | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | speak speech: other | infinitive | thine aged father's sake and the son of the Chief | the promise | 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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