Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 8, sentence 13
Like a brant arrow-pierced in mid-heaven.
What happens: pierce · To what, where: brant, mid-heaven
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: 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 | Like | like | SCONJ | _ | 6 pierced | mark |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 pierced | det |
| 3 | brant | brant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 pierced | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | arrow | arrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 pierced | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 arrow | punct |
| 6 | pierced | pierce | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 mid-heaven | case |
| 8 | mid-heaven | mid-heaven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 pierced | obl |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 pierced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pierce | participle · passive | brant | mid-heaven | arrow compound | vn poke-19-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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