Legends of the Northwest, The Legend., sentence 7
Loved was he by many a maiden; many a dark eye glanced in vain; Many a heart with sighs was laden for the love it might not gain.
Who acts: heart · What happens: love, be, glance, lade, not gain · To what, where: Wanâta, dark eye, many, 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 (heart), 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 | Loved | love | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 maiden | advcl |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 he | cop |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Loved | obl |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 5 many | case |
| 5 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 maiden | nsubj |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 maiden | det |
| 7 | maiden | maiden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 laden | punct |
| 9 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 laden | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 eye | det |
| 11 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 eye | amod |
| 12 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 many | appos |
| 13 | glanced | glance | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 eye | acl |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 vain | case |
| 15 | vain | vain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 glanced | obl |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 heart | punct |
| 17 | Many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 heart | amod |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 heart | det |
| 19 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 laden | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 sighs | case |
| 21 | sighs | sigh | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 heart | nmod |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 laden | aux:pass |
| 23 | laden | lade | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 maiden | parataxis |
| 24 | for | for | ADP | _ | 26 love | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 love | det |
| 26 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 laden | obl |
| 27 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 gain | nsubj |
| 28 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 gain | aux |
| 29 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 30 gain | advmod |
| 30 | gain | gain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 love | acl:relcl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 maiden | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | love | participle | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 2 | is a | past | Wanâta | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | glance | participle | a dark eye not said here | in vain | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in vain=Theme | ||||
| 4 | lade | past · passive | many | for the love; a Many heart with sighs nsubj:pass | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | not gain | might | heart | the love not said here | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent love=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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