Legends of the Northwest, The Mississippi., sentence 20
Never wail or moan he utters and no tear is on his face, But a warrior's curse he mutters on the crafty Saxon race.
Who acts: you, moonlight, tear, curse, warrior · What happens: not wail, moan, utter, be, mutter, curse · To what, where: face, crafty Saxon race
This is a sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Mississippi.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, moonlight, tear, curse), 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 | Never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 2 wail | advmod |
| 2 | wail | wail | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 4 moan | cc |
| 4 | moan | moan | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 wail | conj |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 utters | nsubj |
| 6 | utters | utter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 moan | ccomp |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 face | cc |
| 8 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 9 tear | det |
| 9 | tear | tear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 face | nsubj |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 face | cop |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 face | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 face | nmod:poss |
| 13 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 utters | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 mutters | punct |
| 15 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 21 mutters | cc |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 warrior | det |
| 17 | warrior | warrior | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 curse | nmod:poss |
| 18 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 17 warrior | case |
| 19 | curse | curse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 mutters | nsubj |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 mutters | nsubj |
| 21 | mutters | mutter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 wail | parataxis |
| 22 | on | on | ADP | _ | 26 race | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 race | det |
| 24 | crafty | crafty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 race | amod |
| 25 | Saxon | Saxon | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 race | amod |
| 26 | race | race | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 mutters | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 wail | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not wail | imperative | you not said here | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | moan | infinitive | you not said here | vn complain-37.8 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | utter speech: other | present | moonlight | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is | present | no tear | moonlight's face | moonlight nmod:poss | tree rules | |||
| 5 | mutter speech: assert | present | a warrior's curse | the crafty Saxon race | moonlight nsubj | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 6 | curse | a warrior | nom curse «communication transitive»: 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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