Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 6, sentence 90
Let the step-mother sit in the tee, and kindle the fire for my father; And the cold, cruel winter shall be a feast-time instead of a famine." "
Who acts: you, cold cruel winter · What happens: let, kindle, be · To what, where: mother sit, tee, fire, feast time
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 (you, cold cruel winter), 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 | Let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 sit | det |
| 3 | step | step | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 mother | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 step | punct |
| 5 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sit | compound |
| 6 | sit | sit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Let | obj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 tee | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 tee | det |
| 9 | tee | tee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sit | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 kindle | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 kindle | cc |
| 12 | kindle | kindle | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Let | conj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 fire | det |
| 14 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 kindle | obj |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 father | case |
| 16 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 father | nmod:poss |
| 17 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 kindle | obl |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 30 time | punct |
| 19 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 time | cc |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 winter | det |
| 21 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 winter | amod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 cold | punct |
| 23 | cruel | cruel | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 winter | amod |
| 24 | winter | winter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 time | nsubj |
| 25 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 time | aux |
| 26 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 30 time | cop |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 time | det |
| 28 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 time | compound |
| 29 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 28 feast | punct |
| 30 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Let | obl |
| 31 | instead | instead | ADV | ExtPos=ADP | 34 famine | case |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 instead | fixed |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 famine | det |
| 34 | famine | famine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 time | nmod |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Let | punct |
| 36 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Let | punct |
| 37 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | imperative | you not said here | the mother sit | the tee | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sit=Theme | |||
| 2 | kindle | infinitive | you not said here | the fire | for my father | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent fire=Product for father=Beneficiary | |||
| 3 | is a | shall | the cold cruel winter | a feast time | instead a famine | 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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