Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 6, sentence 81
"My father," she said, and her voice was filial and full of compassion, "Would the heart of Ta-té-psin rejoice at the death of Winona, his daughter?
Who acts: father, voice, filial, Winona · What happens: say, be, rejoice, die · To what, where: death · 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 (father, voice, filial, Winona), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 father | punct |
| 2 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 father | nmod:poss |
| 3 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 father | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 father | punct |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 said | nsubj |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 filial | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 filial | cc |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 voice | nmod:poss |
| 11 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 filial | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 filial | cop |
| 13 | filial | filial | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 rejoice | nsubj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 full | cc |
| 15 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 filial | conj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 compassion | case |
| 17 | compassion | compassion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 full | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 heart | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 heart | punct |
| 20 | Would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 heart | aux |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 heart | det |
| 22 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 filial | conj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 psin | case |
| 24 | Ta | Ta | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 psin | compound |
| 25 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 24 Ta | punct |
| 26 | té | té | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 psin | compound |
| 27 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 26 té | punct |
| 28 | psin | psin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 heart | nmod |
| 29 | rejoice | rejoice | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 said | ccomp |
| 30 | at | at | ADP | _ | 32 death | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 death | det |
| 32 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 rejoice | obl |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 Winona | case |
| 34 | Winona | Winona | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 death | nmod |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 daughter | punct |
| 36 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 37 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 Winona | appos |
| 38 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: ask | past | My father | Winona nsubj | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | is | past | Winona's voice | the heart of Ta té psin conj; filial property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | be | Winona's voice not said here | of compassion | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | rejoice in a quote | present | filial and the heart of Ta té psin | the death of Winona | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 5 | die in a quote | Winona | nom death «event intransitive»: of=agent |
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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