Legends of the Northwest, The Legend., sentence 21
Long she strove to do her duty for the black-eyed babe she bore; But the proud, imperious beauty made her sad forevermore.
Who acts: star, proud imperious beauty · What happens: strive, do, bear, make · To what, where: duty, eyed babe, star
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 (star, proud imperious beauty), 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 | Long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 strove | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 strove | nsubj |
| 3 | strove | strive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 do | mark |
| 5 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 strove | xcomp |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 duty | nmod:poss |
| 7 | duty | duty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 do | obj |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 babe | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 babe | det |
| 10 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 eyed | amod |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 black | punct |
| 12 | eyed | eyed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 babe | amod |
| 13 | babe | babe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 do | obl |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 bore | nsubj |
| 15 | bore | bear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 babe | acl:relcl |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 made | punct |
| 17 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 23 made | cc |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 beauty | det |
| 19 | proud | proud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 beauty | amod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 proud | punct |
| 21 | imperious | imperious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 beauty | amod |
| 22 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 made | nsubj |
| 23 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 strove | conj |
| 24 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 made | obj |
| 25 | sad | sad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 made | xcomp |
| 26 | forevermore | forevermore | ADV | _ | 25 sad | advmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 strove | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | strive | past | star | long property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | do | to-infinitive | star not said here | star's duty | for the eyed babe | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent duty=Eventuality | |||
| 3 | bear | past | star | the eyed babe not said here | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent babe=Patient | ||||
| 4 | make | past | the proud imperious beauty | star | sad property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset she=Product |
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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