Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 7, sentence 104
He will come,--he is coming," she said; "he will come, for my White Eagle promised," And low to the bare earth the maid bent her ear for the sound of his footsteps. "
Who acts: earth, Moon, White Eagle, maid · What happens: come, say, promise, bend · To what, where: ear · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Feast of the Virgins., part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (earth, Moon, White Eagle, maid), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 come | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 come | aux |
| 3 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 coming | punct |
| 5 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 8 coming | punct |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 coming | nsubj |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 coming | aux |
| 8 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 come | parataxis |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 said | nsubj |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 come | advcl |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 come | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 come | punct |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 come | nsubj |
| 16 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 come | aux |
| 17 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 come | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 promised | punct |
| 19 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 23 promised | mark |
| 20 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 Eagle | nmod:poss |
| 21 | White | White | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 Eagle | amod |
| 22 | Eagle | Eagle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 promised | nsubj |
| 23 | promised | promise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 come | advcl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 promised | punct |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 promised | punct |
| 26 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 low | cc |
| 27 | low | low | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 promised | conj |
| 28 | to | to | ADP | _ | 31 earth | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 earth | det |
| 30 | bare | bare | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 earth | amod |
| 31 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 low | obl |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 maid | det |
| 33 | maid | maid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 bent | nsubj |
| 34 | bent | bend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 earth | acl:relcl |
| 35 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 ear | nmod:poss |
| 36 | ear | ear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 bent | obj |
| 37 | for | for | ADP | _ | 39 sound | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 sound | det |
| 39 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 bent | obl |
| 40 | of | of | ADP | _ | 42 footsteps | case |
| 41 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 42 footsteps | nmod:poss |
| 42 | footsteps | footstep | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 sound | nmod |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 come | punct |
| 44 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | future | earth | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | come | present · progressive | earth | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | Moon | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | come | future | earth | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | promise speech: promise | past | my White Eagle | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | bend in a quote | past | the maid | Moon's ear | for the sound of earth's footsteps | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent ear=Material |
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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