Legends of the Northwest, The Legend of the Falls., sentence 12
They say the spirit of Anpetu Sapa sits upon that island at night and pours forth her sorrow in song.
Who acts: spirits, spirit, Island · What happens: say, sit, pour, sorrow · To what, where: island, sorrow, song · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Legend of the Falls.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (spirits, spirit, Island), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 say | nsubj |
| 2 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 spirit | det |
| 4 | spirit | spirit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sits | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 Anpetu | case |
| 6 | Anpetu | Anpetu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 spirit | nmod |
| 7 | Sapa | Sapa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Anpetu | flat |
| 8 | sits | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 say | ccomp |
| 9 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 11 island | case |
| 10 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 island | det |
| 11 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sits | obl |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 night | case |
| 13 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sits | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 pours | cc |
| 15 | pours | pour | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 sits | conj |
| 16 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 15 pours | advmod |
| 17 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 sorrow | nmod:poss |
| 18 | sorrow | sorrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 pours | obj |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 song | case |
| 20 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 pours | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 say | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | spirits = spirit | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | sit | present | the spirit of Anpetu | that island | night | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon island=Location | |||
| 3 | pour | present | the spirit of Anpetu not said here | Island's sorrow | song | forth property | vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sorrow=Patient | ||
| 4 | sorrow | Island | nom sorrow «feeling intransitive»: 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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