Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 7, sentence 131
Alas for her waiting! the wings of the East-wind have brought her no tidings; On the meadow the meadow-lark sings but sad is her song to Winona, For the glad warblers melody brings but the memory of voices departed.
Who acts: meadow lark, warblers melody, Alas · What happens: bring, sing, be, depart, wait · To what, where: Alas, meadow, sad song, Winona, memory
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 (meadow lark, warblers melody, Alas), 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 | Alas | Alas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | for | for | ADP | _ | 4 waiting | case |
| 3 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 waiting | nmod:poss |
| 4 | waiting | waiting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Alas | nmod |
| 5 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Alas | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 wings | det |
| 7 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 wind | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 wind | det |
| 10 | East | East | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 wind | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 East | punct |
| 12 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 wings | nmod |
| 13 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 brought | aux |
| 14 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 tidings | nmod:poss |
| 16 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 17 tidings | det |
| 17 | tidings | tiding | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 brought | obj |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 sings | punct |
| 19 | On | on | ADP | _ | 21 meadow | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 meadow | det |
| 21 | meadow | meadow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 sings | obl |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 lark | det |
| 23 | meadow | meadow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 lark | compound |
| 24 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 23 meadow | punct |
| 25 | lark | lark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 sings | nsubj |
| 26 | sings | sing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 brought | conj |
| 27 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 31 song | cc |
| 28 | sad | sad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 song | amod |
| 29 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 song | cop |
| 30 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 song | nmod:poss |
| 31 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 sings | conj |
| 32 | to | to | ADP | _ | 33 Winona | case |
| 33 | Winona | Winona | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 song | nmod |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 brings | punct |
| 35 | For | for | SCONJ | _ | 40 brings | mark |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 melody | det |
| 37 | glad | glad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 warblers | amod |
| 38 | warblers | warbler | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 melody | compound |
| 39 | melody | melody | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 brings | nsubj |
| 40 | brings | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 sings | advcl |
| 41 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 46 departed | cc |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 memory | det |
| 43 | memory | memory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 departed | nsubj:pass |
| 44 | of | of | ADP | _ | 45 voices | case |
| 45 | voices | voice | NOUN | Number=Plur | 43 memory | nmod |
| 46 | departed | depart | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 40 brings | conj |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 brought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | present · perfect · passive | Alas for Alas's waiting | the wings of the East wind nsubj:pass; Alas's tidings obj | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Destination tiding=Theme | ||||
| 2 | sing speech: express | present | the meadow lark | the meadow | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on meadow=Location | ||||
| 3 | is a | present | the meadow lark not said here | Alas's sad song | Winona | Alas nmod:poss | tree rules | ||
| 4 | bring | present | the warblers melody | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | depart | participle · passive | the memory of voices | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Initial_Location | |||||
| 6 | wait | Alas | nom waiting «act intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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