Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 6, sentence 92
"His camp-fire will nevermore burn in the land of the warriors he slaughtered.
Who acts: camp fire, fire, Ta · What happens: burn, slaughter, fire · To what, where: land, warriors
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 (camp fire, fire, Ta), 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 | _ | 8 burn | punct |
| 2 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 fire | nmod:poss |
| 3 | camp | camp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 fire | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 camp | punct |
| 5 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 burn | nsubj |
| 6 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 burn | aux |
| 7 | nevermore | nevermore | ADV | _ | 8 burn | advmod |
| 8 | burn | burn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 land | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 land | det |
| 11 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 burn | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 warriors | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 warriors | det |
| 14 | warriors | warrior | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 land | nmod |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 slaughtered | nsubj |
| 16 | slaughtered | slaughter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 warriors | acl:relcl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 burn | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | burn in a quote | future | Ta's camp fire | the land of the warriors | nevermore property | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in land=Location | |||
| 2 | slaughter in a quote | past | fire | the warriors not said here | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent warrior=Patient | ||||
| 3 | fire in a quote | Ta | nom fire «event transitive»: poss=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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