Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 6, sentence 94
Then warmly Winona replied, "Tamdóka himself is the traitor, And the white-hearted stranger had died by his treacherous hand in the forest, But thy daughter's voice bade him beware of the sly death that followed his footsteps.
Who acts: Winona, Tamdóka, hearted stranger, voice, sly death · What happens: reply, be, die, bade, beware, follow · To what, where: traitor, Tamdóka, footsteps · 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, Tamdóka, hearted stranger, voice), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 replied | advmod |
| 2 | warmly | warmly | ADV | _ | 4 replied | advmod |
| 3 | Winona | Winona | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 replied | nsubj |
| 4 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 traitor | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 traitor | punct |
| 7 | Tamdóka | Tamdóka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 traitor | nsubj |
| 8 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes | 7 Tamdóka | nmod:unmarked |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 traitor | cop |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 traitor | det |
| 11 | traitor | traitor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 replied | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 died | punct |
| 13 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 died | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 stranger | det |
| 15 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 hearted | amod |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 white | punct |
| 17 | hearted | hearted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 stranger | amod |
| 18 | stranger | stranger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 died | nsubj |
| 19 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 died | aux |
| 20 | died | die | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 replied | conj |
| 21 | by | by | ADP | _ | 24 hand | case |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 hand | nmod:poss |
| 23 | treacherous | treacherous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 hand | amod |
| 24 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 died | obl |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 forest | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 forest | det |
| 27 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 hand | nmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 bade | punct |
| 29 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 34 bade | cc |
| 30 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 31 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 31 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 voice | nmod:poss |
| 32 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 31 daughter | case |
| 33 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 bade | nsubj |
| 34 | bade | bade | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 replied | conj |
| 35 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 bade | obj |
| 36 | beware | beware | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 34 bade | xcomp |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 40 death | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 death | det |
| 39 | sly | sly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 death | amod |
| 40 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 beware | obl |
| 41 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 42 followed | nsubj |
| 42 | followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 40 death | acl:relcl |
| 43 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 44 footsteps | nmod:poss |
| 44 | footsteps | footstep | NOUN | Number=Plur | 42 followed | obj |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | Winona | then | warmly property | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | Tamdóka Tamdóka | the traitor | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | die in a quote | past · perfect | the hearted stranger | by Tamdóka's treacherous hand in the forest | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 4 | bade in a quote | past | thy daughter's voice | Tamdóka | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | beware in a quote | infinitive | thy daughter's voice not said here | of the sly death | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 6 | follow in a quote | past | the sly death | Tamdóka's footsteps | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent footstep=Theme |
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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