Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 7, sentence 59
To the hungry maid sweet was her supper.
What happens: be · To what, where: supper
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 | To | to | ADP | _ | 5 sweet | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 sweet | det |
| 3 | hungry | hungry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 sweet | amod |
| 4 | maid | maid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sweet | compound |
| 5 | sweet | sweet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 supper | obl |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 supper | cop |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 supper | nmod:poss |
| 8 | supper | supper | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 supper | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Winona's supper | to the hungry maid sweet; Winona nmod:poss | tree rules |
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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