Legends of the Northwest, The Legend., sentence 42
[c] _Drapa_, a Norse funeral wail in which the virtues of the deceased are recounted.
What happens: decease, recount · To what, where: virtues, Norse funeral wail, c
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: 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 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 2 c | punct |
| 2 | c | c | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 2 c | punct |
| 4 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 5 Drapa | punct |
| 5 | Drapa | Drapa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 c | appos |
| 6 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 5 Drapa | punct |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 wail | punct |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 wail | det |
| 9 | Norse | norse | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 wail | amod |
| 10 | funeral | funeral | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 wail | compound |
| 11 | wail | wail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 c | appos |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 which | case |
| 13 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 recounted | obl |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 virtues | det |
| 15 | virtues | virtue | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 recounted | obl |
| 16 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 20 recounted | mark |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 recounted | det |
| 18 | deceased | decease | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 recounted | amod |
| 19 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 recounted | aux:pass |
| 20 | recounted | recount | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 wail | acl:relcl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 c | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | decease | participle | vn die-42.4 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 2 | recount speech: other | present · passive | the virtues | a Norse funeral wail | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S» |
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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