Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 6, sentence 93
I grieve, for my daughter has said that she loves the false friend of her kindred; For the hands of the White Chief are red with the blood of the trustful Dakotas."
Who acts: I, daughter · What happens: grieve, say, love, be · To what, where: false friend · 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 (I, daughter), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 grieve | nsubj |
| 2 | grieve | grieve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 4 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 8 said | mark |
| 5 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 6 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 7 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | aux |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 grieve | conj |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 loves | mark |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 loves | nsubj |
| 11 | loves | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | ccomp |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 friend | det |
| 13 | false | false | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 friend | amod |
| 14 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 loves | obj |
| 15 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 17 kindred | mark |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 kindred | nmod:poss |
| 17 | kindred | kindred | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 friend | acl |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 27 red | punct |
| 19 | For | for | ADP | _ | 21 hands | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 hands | det |
| 21 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 red | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 Chief | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 Chief | det |
| 24 | White | White | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 Chief | compound |
| 25 | Chief | Chief | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 hands | nmod |
| 26 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 red | cop |
| 27 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 grieve | conj |
| 28 | with | with | ADP | _ | 30 blood | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 blood | det |
| 30 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 red | obl |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 Dakotas | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 Dakotas | det |
| 33 | trustful | trustful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 Dakotas | amod |
| 34 | Dakotas | dakota | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 blood | nmod |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 grieve | punct |
| 36 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 grieve | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grieve | present | I | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present · perfect | my daughter | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | love | present | daughter | the false friend | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer friend=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | is | present | I not said here | for the hands of the White Chief; with the blood of the trustful Dakotas; red property | 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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