Legends of the Northwest, The Legend., sentence 33
The burden is heavy and hard to bear; I sink,--I die, and my dying song Is a song of joy to the false one's ear.
Who acts: burden, I, dying song, my · What happens: be, bear, sink, die, sing · To what, where: song
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 (burden, I, dying song, my), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 burden | det |
| 2 | burden | burden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 heavy | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 heavy | cop |
| 4 | heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 hard | cc |
| 6 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 heavy | conj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 bear | mark |
| 8 | bear | bear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 hard | xcomp |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 sink | punct |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 sink | nsubj |
| 11 | sink | sink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 heavy | parataxis |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 die | punct |
| 13 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 15 die | punct |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 die | nsubj |
| 15 | die | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 sink | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 song | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 song | cc |
| 18 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 song | nmod:poss |
| 19 | dying | die | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 20 song | amod |
| 20 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 song | nsubj |
| 21 | Is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 song | cop |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 song | det |
| 23 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 die | obl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 joy | case |
| 25 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 song | nmod |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 31 ear | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 one | det |
| 28 | false | false | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 one | amod |
| 29 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 ear | nmod:poss |
| 30 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 29 one | case |
| 31 | ear | ear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 die | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 heavy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the burden | heavy property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | the burden not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | bear | to-infinitive | the burden not said here | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | sink | present | I | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 5 | die | present | I | to the false one's ear | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 6 | die | gerund | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||||
| 7 | is a | present | my dying song | a song | of joy | tree rules | |||
| 8 | sing | my | nom song «communication 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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