Legends of the Northwest, The Game of Ball. [2], sentence 34
Loved was Mahpíya by Hârpstinà, But the warrior she never could charm or draw; And bitter indeed was her secret hate For the maiden she reckoned so fortunate.
Who acts: warrior, Hóhé · What happens: love, be, charm, reckon · To what, where: Mahpíya, bitter secret hate, maiden
This is a sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Game of Ball. [2]. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (warrior, Hóhé), 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 | root | root |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 Mahpíya | cop |
| 3 | Mahpíya | Mahpíya | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Loved | obl:agent |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 5 Hârpstinà | case |
| 5 | Hârpstinà | Hârpstinà | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Loved | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 charm | punct |
| 7 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 charm | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 warrior | det |
| 9 | warrior | warrior | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 charm | nsubj |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 could | nsubj |
| 11 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 12 could | advmod |
| 12 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 charm | aux |
| 13 | charm | charm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Loved | obl |
| 14 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 15 draw | cc |
| 15 | draw | draw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 charm | conj |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 hate | punct |
| 17 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 bitter | cc |
| 18 | bitter | bitter | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 hate | amod |
| 19 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 18 bitter | advmod |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 hate | cop |
| 21 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 hate | nmod:poss |
| 22 | secret | secret | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 hate | amod |
| 23 | hate | hate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Loved | obl |
| 24 | For | for | ADP | _ | 26 maiden | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 maiden | det |
| 26 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 hate | nmod |
| 27 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 reckoned | nsubj |
| 28 | reckoned | reckon | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 maiden | acl:relcl |
| 29 | so | so | ADV | _ | 30 fortunate | advmod |
| 30 | fortunate | fortunate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 reckoned | xcomp |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Loved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | love | participle | by Hârpstinà | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | is a | past | Mahpíya | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | charm | could | the warrior | draw conj | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is a | past | Hóhé's bitter secret hate | for the maiden; Hóhé nmod:poss | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | reckon | past | Hóhé | the maiden not said here | fortunate property | vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent maiden=Attribute |
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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