Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 7, sentence 137
Her sad face up-turned to the sky.
What happens: turn · To what, where: sad face, sky
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: 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 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 face | nmod:poss |
| 2 | sad | sad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 face | amod |
| 3 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 6 turned | mark |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 up | punct |
| 6 | turned | turn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 face | acl |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 sky | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 sky | det |
| 9 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 turned | obl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 face | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | participle | brink's sad face not said here | the sky | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to sky=Trajectory |
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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