Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 8, sentence 2
I looked to the East, but I saw no star; The face of my White Chief was turned away.
Who acts: I · What happens: look, see, turn away · To what, where: star, face
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 (I), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 looked | nsubj |
| 2 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 East | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 East | det |
| 5 | East | East | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 looked | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 saw | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 saw | cc |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 saw | nsubj |
| 9 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 looked | conj |
| 10 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 11 star | det |
| 11 | star | star | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 saw | obj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 turned | punct |
| 13 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 face | det |
| 14 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 turned | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 Chief | case |
| 16 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 Chief | nmod:poss |
| 17 | White | White | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Chief | compound |
| 18 | Chief | Chief | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 face | nmod |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 turned | aux:pass |
| 20 | turned | turn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 looked | conj |
| 21 | away | away | ADV | _ | 20 turned | advmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | I | to the East | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to east=Theme | ||||
| 2 | see | past | I | no star | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer star=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | turn away | past · passive | the face of my White Chief | away property | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
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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