Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 6, sentence 98
His thin locks the aged brave shook; to himself half inaudibly muttered; To Winona no answer he spoke --only moaned he "Micunksee!
Who acts: heart · What happens: lock, mutter, speak, moan · To what, where: aged brave shook, heart, answer, Winona · 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 (heart), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 locks | nmod:poss |
| 2 | thin | thin | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 locks | amod |
| 3 | locks | lock | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 shook | det |
| 5 | aged | aged | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 shook | amod |
| 6 | brave | brave | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 shook | amod |
| 7 | shook | shook | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 locks | obj |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 muttered | punct |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 himself | case |
| 10 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 13 muttered | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | half | half | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 13 muttered | advmod |
| 12 | inaudibly | inaudibly | ADV | _ | 13 muttered | advmod |
| 13 | muttered | mutter | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 locks | conj |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 moaned | punct |
| 15 | To | to | ADP | _ | 16 Winona | case |
| 16 | Winona | Winona | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 moaned | obl |
| 17 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 18 answer | det |
| 18 | answer | answer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 Winona | appos |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 spoke | nsubj |
| 20 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 answer | acl:relcl |
| 21 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 16 Winona | punct |
| 22 | only | only | ADV | _ | 23 moaned | advmod |
| 23 | moaned | moan | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 locks | parataxis |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 Micunksee | nsubj |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 Micunksee | punct |
| 26 | Micunksee | Micunksee | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 moaned | parataxis |
| 27 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 locks | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lock | present | the aged brave shook | heart nmod:poss | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shook=Patient | ||||
| 2 | mutter speech: assert | participle · passive | heart | half, inaudibly property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | ||||
| 3 | speak speech: other | past | heart | no answer not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | moan | past | Winona | Micunksee heart parataxis | vn complain-37.8 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Agent to winona=Recipient clause=Topic |
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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