Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 8, sentence 10
My Father's Spirit, look down, look down-- From your hunting-grounds in the shining skies; Behold, for the light of my soul is gone,-- The light is gone and Winona dies.
Who acts: you, light, Winona · What happens: look down, shine, be, die, light · To what, where: soul
This is a sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Feast of the Virgins., part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, light, Winona), 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 | 2 Father | nmod:poss |
| 2 | Father | Father | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 look | vocative |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 Father | case |
| 4 | Spirit | Spirit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Father | flat |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Father | punct |
| 6 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | down | down | ADP | _ | 6 look | compound:prt |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 look | punct |
| 9 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 6 look | conj |
| 10 | down | down | ADV | _ | 9 look | advmod |
| 11 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 16 grounds | punct |
| 12 | From | from | ADP | _ | 16 grounds | case |
| 13 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 grounds | nmod:poss |
| 14 | hunting | hunting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 grounds | compound |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 hunting | punct |
| 16 | grounds | grounds | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 9 look | obl |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 skies | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 skies | det |
| 19 | shining | shine | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 20 skies | amod |
| 20 | skies | sky | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 grounds | nmod |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 Behold | punct |
| 22 | Behold | behold | INTJ | _ | 6 look | discourse |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 gone | punct |
| 24 | for | for | ADP | _ | 26 light | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 light | det |
| 26 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 gone | nsubj |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 soul | case |
| 28 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 soul | nmod:poss |
| 29 | soul | soul | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 light | nmod |
| 30 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 gone | cop |
| 31 | gone | gone | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 look | parataxis |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 gone | punct |
| 33 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 37 gone | punct |
| 34 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 light | det |
| 35 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 gone | nsubj |
| 36 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 37 gone | cop |
| 37 | gone | gone | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 gone | parataxis |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 dies | cc |
| 39 | Winona | Winona | PROPN | Number=Sing | 40 dies | nsubj |
| 40 | dies | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 37 gone | conj |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 look | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look down | imperative | you not said here | My Father vocative | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | look down | infinitive | you not said here | from your hunting grounds in the shining skies; down property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent from grounds=Theme | ||||
| 3 | shine | gerund | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | is | present | the light of my soul | gone property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | is | present | the light | gone property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | die | present | Winona | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 7 | light | my soul | nom light «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient |
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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