Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 7, sentence 33
He promised,--he promised," she said --half-dreamily uttered and mournful,-- "And why comes he not?
Who acts: bow, pheasant · What happens: promise, say, utter, not come · 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 (bow, pheasant), 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 | 2 promised | nsubj |
| 2 | promised | promise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 promised | punct |
| 4 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 6 promised | punct |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 promised | nsubj |
| 6 | promised | promise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 promised | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 said | nsubj |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 promised | parataxis |
| 11 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 15 uttered | punct |
| 12 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 15 uttered | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 half | punct |
| 14 | dreamily | dreamily | ADV | _ | 15 uttered | advmod |
| 15 | uttered | utter | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 said | ccomp |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 mournful | cc |
| 17 | mournful | mournful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 uttered | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 comes | punct |
| 19 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 23 comes | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 comes | punct |
| 21 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 comes | cc |
| 22 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 23 comes | advmod |
| 23 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 uttered | conj |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 comes | nsubj |
| 25 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 comes | advmod |
| 26 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 promised | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | promise speech: promise | past | bow | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | promise speech: promise | past | bow | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | pheasant | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | utter speech: other in a quote | participle | half compound; dreamily property | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | not come | present | bow | 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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