Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 7, sentence 70
Ere the sun reached the midst of his journey, Her red, welcome burden she laid at the feet of her famishing father.
Who acts: Ere, sun · What happens: reach, lay, famish, journey, burden · To what, where: midst, red welcome burden, feet
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 (Ere, sun), 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 | Ere | Ere | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 reached | nsubj |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 sun | det |
| 3 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 reached | nsubj |
| 4 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 midst | det |
| 6 | midst | midst | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 reached | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 journey | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 journey | nmod:poss |
| 9 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 midst | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 burden | punct |
| 11 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 burden | nmod:poss |
| 12 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 burden | amod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 red | punct |
| 14 | welcome | welcome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 burden | amod |
| 15 | burden | burden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 midst | conj |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 laid | nsubj |
| 17 | laid | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 burden | acl:relcl |
| 18 | at | at | ADP | _ | 20 feet | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 feet | det |
| 20 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 laid | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 father | case |
| 22 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 father | nmod:poss |
| 23 | famishing | famish | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 24 father | amod |
| 24 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 feet | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 reached | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | past | Ere | the midst of sun's journey and Ere's red welcome burden | the sun nsubj | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent midst=Theme | |||
| 2 | lay | past | Ere | Ere's red welcome burden not said here | the feet of Ere's famishing father | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent burden=Theme at foot=Destination | |||
| 3 | famish | gerund | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | journey | sun | nom journey «act transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 5 | burden | Ere | nom burden «cognition transitive»: 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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