Legends of the Northwest, The Mississippi., sentence 21
O thou dark, mysterious River, speak and tell thy tales to me; Seal not up thy lips forever--veiled in mist and mystery.
Who acts: thy · What happens: speak, tell, veil · To what, where: tales, me · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (thy), 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 | O | o | INTJ | _ | 3 dark | discourse |
| 2 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 3 dark | nsubj |
| 3 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 River | punct |
| 5 | mysterious | mysterious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 River | amod |
| 6 | River | River | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 dark | vocative |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 speak | punct |
| 8 | speak | speak | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 dark | parataxis |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 tell | cc |
| 10 | tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 8 speak | conj |
| 11 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 12 tales | nmod:poss |
| 12 | tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 tell | obj |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 me | case |
| 14 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 tell | obl |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 lips | punct |
| 16 | Seal | Seal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 lips | nsubj |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 lips | advmod |
| 18 | up | up | ADP | _ | 20 lips | case |
| 19 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 20 lips | nmod:poss |
| 20 | lips | lip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 dark | parataxis |
| 21 | forever | forever | ADV | _ | 20 lips | advmod |
| 22 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 23 veiled | punct |
| 23 | veiled | veil | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 dark | conj |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 mist | case |
| 25 | mist | mist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 veiled | obl |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 mystery | cc |
| 27 | mystery | mystery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 mist | conj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 dark | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | infinitive | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | infinitive | thy tales | me | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent tale=Topic to i=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | veil | participle | in mist and mystery | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent in mist=Theme | |||||
| 5 | tell | thy | nom tale «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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