Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 1, sentence 12
Tis a custom of old and a sacred thing; Nor rank nor beauty the warriors spare, If a tarnished maiden should enter there.
Who acts: you, warriors, tarnished maiden · What happens: tis, spare, tarnish, enter · To what, where: custom, Nor rank
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 (you, warriors, tarnished maiden), 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 | Tis | tis | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 custom | det |
| 3 | custom | custom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Tis | obj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 old | case |
| 5 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 custom | nmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 thing | cc |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 thing | det |
| 8 | sacred | sacred | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 thing | amod |
| 9 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 custom | conj |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 rank | punct |
| 11 | Nor | nor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 rank | amod |
| 12 | rank | rank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Tis | parataxis |
| 13 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 14 beauty | cc |
| 14 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 rank | conj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 warriors | det |
| 16 | warriors | warrior | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 spare | nsubj |
| 17 | spare | spare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 rank | acl:relcl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 enter | punct |
| 19 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 24 enter | mark |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 maiden | det |
| 21 | tarnished | tarnish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 maiden | amod |
| 22 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 enter | nsubj |
| 23 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 enter | aux |
| 24 | enter | enter | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Tis | conj |
| 25 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 24 enter | advmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Tis | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tis | imperative | you not said here | a custom of old and a sacred thing | Nor rank nor beauty parataxis | tree rules | |||
| 2 | spare | present | the warriors | Nor rank nor beauty not said here | vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: agent=Agent rank=Asset | ||||
| 3 | tarnish | participle | vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 4 | enter a condition, not said to happen | should | a tarnished maiden | there | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V»: agent=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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