Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 7, sentence 53
My White Eagle, he will come; He will come, for he promised,-- My White Eagle.
Who acts: White Eagle, Eagle · What happens: come, promise · To what, where: White Eagle
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 (White Eagle, Eagle), 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 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 Eagle | nmod:poss |
| 2 | White | White | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Eagle | amod |
| 3 | Eagle | Eagle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 come | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Eagle | punct |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 come | nsubj |
| 6 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 come | aux |
| 7 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 come | punct |
| 9 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 come | nsubj |
| 10 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 come | aux |
| 11 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 come | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 promised | punct |
| 13 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 15 promised | mark |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 promised | nsubj |
| 15 | promised | promise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 come | advcl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 promised | punct |
| 17 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 20 Eagle | punct |
| 18 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 Eagle | nmod:poss |
| 19 | White | White | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 Eagle | amod |
| 20 | Eagle | Eagle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 come | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | future | My White Eagle | My White Eagle | Eagle nsubj | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | come | future | Eagle | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | promise speech: promise | past | Eagle | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=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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