Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 7, sentence 105
He is gone, but his voice in my ear still remains like the voice of the robin; He is far, but his footsteps I hear; he is coming; my White Chief is coming!"
Who acts: maid, voice, footsteps, White Chief · What happens: be, remain, hear, come
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 (maid, voice, footsteps, White Chief), 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 gone | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 gone | cop |
| 3 | gone | gone | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 remains | punct |
| 5 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 remains | cc |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 voice | nmod:poss |
| 7 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 remains | nsubj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 ear | case |
| 9 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 ear | nmod:poss |
| 10 | ear | ear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 voice | nmod |
| 11 | still | still | ADV | _ | 12 remains | advmod |
| 12 | remains | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 gone | conj |
| 13 | like | like | ADP | _ | 15 voice | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 voice | det |
| 15 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 remains | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 robin | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 robin | det |
| 18 | robin | robin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 voice | nmod |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 far | punct |
| 20 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 far | nsubj |
| 21 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 far | cop |
| 22 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 12 remains | advmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 hear | punct |
| 24 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 28 hear | cc |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 footsteps | nmod:poss |
| 26 | footsteps | footstep | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 hear | nsubj |
| 27 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 28 hear | nsubj |
| 28 | hear | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 far | advcl |
| 29 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 32 coming | punct |
| 30 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 coming | nsubj |
| 31 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 coming | aux |
| 32 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 gone | conj |
| 33 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 38 coming | punct |
| 34 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 Chief | nmod:poss |
| 35 | White | White | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 Chief | compound |
| 36 | Chief | Chief | PROPN | Number=Sing | 38 coming | nsubj |
| 37 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 38 coming | aux |
| 38 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 gone | parataxis |
| 39 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 38 coming | punct |
| 40 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 38 coming | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | maid | gone property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | remain | present | maid's voice in my ear | still | like the voice of the robin | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 3 | is | present | maid | far property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | hear | present | maid's footsteps | I nsubj | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 5 | come | present · progressive | maid | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | come | present · progressive | my White Chief | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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