Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 8, sentence 12
Too late! on the brave as he crept turned the maid in her scorn and defiance; Then swift from the dizzy height leaped.
Who acts: crag, Winona · What happens: creep, turn, swift, leap, scorn · To what, where: maid, dizzy height
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 (crag, 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 | Too | too | ADV | _ | 2 late | advmod |
| 2 | late | late | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 late | punct |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 brave | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 brave | det |
| 6 | brave | brave | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 late | conj |
| 7 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 9 crept | mark |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 crept | nsubj |
| 9 | crept | creep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 brave | advcl |
| 10 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 crept | conj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 maid | det |
| 12 | maid | maid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 turned | obj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 scorn | case |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 scorn | nmod:poss |
| 15 | scorn | scorn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 turned | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 defiance | cc |
| 17 | defiance | defiance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 scorn | conj |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 swift | punct |
| 19 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 20 swift | advmod |
| 20 | swift | swift | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 late | parataxis |
| 21 | from | from | ADP | _ | 24 height | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 height | det |
| 23 | dizzy | dizzy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 height | amod |
| 24 | height | height | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 swift | obl |
| 25 | leaped | leap | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 height | acl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 late | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | creep | past | crag | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | turn | past | crag not said here | the maid | in Winona's scorn and defiance | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent maid=Patient in scorn=Topic | |||
| 3 | swift | infinitive | the dizzy height | then | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | leap | participle | the dizzy height not said here | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | scorn | Winona | nom scorn «feeling 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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