Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 1, sentence 102

Ah, soon shall the lips of men forget Wakâwa's name, and the mound of stone Will speak of the dead to the winds alone, And the winds will whistle their mock-regret.

Who acts: lips, mound, winds, Wakâwa · What happens: forget, speak, whistle, name, regret · To what, where: name, mock regret · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Feast of the Virgins., part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lips, mound, winds, Wakâwa), 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	Ah	ah	INTJ	_	9 forget	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Ah	punct
3	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 lips	advmod
4	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 lips	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 lips	det
6	lips	lip	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 forget	nsubj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 men	case
8	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 lips	nmod
9	forget	forget	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	Wakâwa	Wakâwa	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 name	nmod:poss
11	's	's	PART	_	10 Wakâwa	case
12	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 forget	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 speak	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 speak	cc
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 mound	det
16	mound	mound	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 speak	nsubj
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 stone	case
18	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 mound	nmod
19	Will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 speak	aux
20	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 forget	parataxis
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 dead	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 dead	det
23	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 speak	obl
24	to	to	ADP	_	26 winds	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 winds	det
26	winds	wind	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 speak	obl
27	alone	alone	ADV	_	20 speak	advmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 whistle	punct
29	And	and	CCONJ	_	33 whistle	cc
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 winds	det
31	winds	wind	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 whistle	nsubj
32	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 whistle	aux
33	whistle	whistle	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 forget	parataxis
34	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 regret	nmod:poss
35	mock	mock	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 regret	compound
36	-	-	PUNCT	_	35 mock	punct
37	regret	regret	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 whistle	obj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 forget	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	forget	present	the lips of men	Wakâwa's name		tree rules
2	speak speech: other	future	the mound of stone		of the dead; to the winds; alone property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to wind=Co-Agent
3	whistle	future	the winds	lips's mock regret		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent regret=Topic
4	name		Wakâwa			nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent
5	regret		lips = lip			nom regret «feeling 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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🌲 Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 1, sentence 102

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 1, sentence 102