Legends of the Northwest, The Legend., sentence 12
Love and joy sat in the tepee; him a black-eyed boy she bore; But alas, she lived to weep a love she lost forevermore.
Who acts: Love · What happens: sit, bear, live, weep, lose · To what, where: alas, tepee, eyed boy, love
This is a sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Legend.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Love), 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 | Love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sat | nsubj |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 joy | cc |
| 3 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Love | conj |
| 4 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 tepee | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 tepee | det |
| 7 | tepee | tepee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sat | obl |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 9 him | punct |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 sat | advcl |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 boy | det |
| 11 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 eyed | amod |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 black | punct |
| 13 | eyed | eyed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 boy | amod |
| 14 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sat | advcl |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 bore | nsubj |
| 16 | bore | bear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 boy | acl:relcl |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 alas | punct |
| 18 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 alas | cc |
| 19 | alas | ala | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 sat | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 lived | punct |
| 21 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 lived | nsubj |
| 22 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 sat | conj |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 weep | mark |
| 24 | weep | weep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 lived | xcomp |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 love | det |
| 26 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 weep | obj |
| 27 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 lost | nsubj |
| 28 | lost | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 love | acl:relcl |
| 29 | forevermore | forevermore | ADV | _ | 28 lost | advmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | past | Love and joy | alas | the tepee | beaver advcl; a eyed boy advcl | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in tepee=Location | ||
| 2 | bear | past | love | a eyed boy not said here | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boy=Patient | ||||
| 3 | live | past | love | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | weep | to-infinitive | love not said here | a love | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent love=Theme | ||||
| 5 | lose | past | love | a love not said here | forevermore property | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent love=Eventuality |
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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