Legends of the Northwest, The Legend of the Falls., sentence 21
Sorrow on her brow is graven, in her arms a babe is pressed.
What happens: grave, press · To what, where: Sorrow, babe, arms
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: 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 | Sorrow | sorrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 graven | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | on | on | ADP | _ | 4 brow | case |
| 3 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 brow | nmod:poss |
| 4 | brow | brow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Sorrow | nmod |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 graven | aux:pass |
| 6 | graven | grave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 pressed | punct |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 arms | case |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 arms | nmod:poss |
| 10 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 pressed | obl |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 babe | det |
| 12 | babe | babe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 pressed | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 pressed | aux:pass |
| 14 | pressed | press | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 graven | conj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 graven | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grave | present · passive | Sorrow on whippowil's brow | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | press | present · passive | a babe | whippowil's arms | vn push-12-1-1 «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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