Legends of the Northwest, The Legend., sentence 36
Mihihna, Mihihna, the boy I bore-- When the robin sang and my brave was true, I can bear to look on his face no more.
Who acts: I, Mihihna, brave · What happens: bear, sing, be, look · To what, where: boy
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 (I, Mihihna, brave), 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 | Mihihna | Mihihna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 sang | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Mihihna | punct |
| 3 | Mihihna | Mihihna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Mihihna | flat |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 boy | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 boy | det |
| 6 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Mihihna | appos |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 bore | nsubj |
| 8 | bore | bear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 boy | acl:relcl |
| 9 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 1 Mihihna | punct |
| 10 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 13 sang | mark |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 robin | det |
| 12 | robin | robin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 sang | nsubj |
| 13 | sang | sing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 true | cc |
| 15 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 brave | nmod:poss |
| 16 | brave | brave | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 true | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 true | cop |
| 18 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 sang | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 bear | punct |
| 20 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 bear | nsubj |
| 21 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 bear | aux |
| 22 | bear | bear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 sang | conj |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 look | mark |
| 24 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 bear | xcomp |
| 25 | on | on | ADP | _ | 27 face | case |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 face | nmod:poss |
| 27 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 look | obl |
| 28 | no | no | ADV | _ | 29 more | advmod |
| 29 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 24 look | advmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 sang | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bear | past | I | the boy not said here | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boy=Patient | ||||
| 2 | sing speech: express | past | Mihihna | the robin nsubj | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location | ||||
| 3 | is | past | my brave | true property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | bear | can | I | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | look | to-infinitive | I not said here | on robin's face | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on face=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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