Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 1, sentence 120
He paid for his crime with his false heart's blood, But his angry spirit has brought her dole; [61] It has entered her breast and her burning head, And she raves and burns on her fevered bed. "
Who acts: Cloud, serpent · What happens: pay, bring, enter, rave, burn, fever · To what, where: angry spirit, dole, fevered bed
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 (Cloud, serpent), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 paid | nsubj |
| 2 | paid | pay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 crime | case |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 crime | nmod:poss |
| 5 | crime | crime | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 paid | obl |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 blood | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 heart | nmod:poss |
| 8 | false | false | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 heart | amod |
| 9 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 blood | nmod:poss |
| 10 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 9 heart | case |
| 11 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 paid | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 brought | punct |
| 13 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 brought | cc |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 spirit | nmod:poss |
| 15 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 spirit | amod |
| 16 | spirit | spirit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 brought | aux |
| 18 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 paid | parataxis |
| 19 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 dole | nmod:poss |
| 20 | dole | dole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 brought | obj |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 27 entered | punct |
| 22 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 23 61 | punct |
| 23 | 61 | 61 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 27 entered | obl |
| 24 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 23 61 | punct |
| 25 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 entered | nsubj:pass |
| 26 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 entered | aux |
| 27 | entered | enter | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 paid | parataxis |
| 28 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 breast | nmod:poss |
| 29 | breast | breast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 entered | obj |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 head | cc |
| 31 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 head | nmod:poss |
| 32 | burning | burning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 head | compound |
| 33 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 breast | conj |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 raves | punct |
| 35 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 raves | cc |
| 36 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 raves | nsubj |
| 37 | raves | rave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 paid | parataxis |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 burns | cc |
| 39 | burns | burn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 37 raves | conj |
| 40 | on | on | ADP | _ | 43 bed | case |
| 41 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 43 bed | nmod:poss |
| 42 | fevered | fever | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 43 bed | amod |
| 43 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 burns | obl |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 37 raves | punct |
| 45 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 37 raves | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pay | past | Cloud | for Cloud's crime; with Cloud's false heart's blood | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent for crime=Theme | ||||
| 2 | bring | present · perfect · passive | Cloud's angry spirit | serpent's dole obj | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Destination dole=Theme | ||||
| 3 | enter | present · perfect · passive | dole | 61 obl; serpent's breast and serpent's burning head obj | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | rave speech: other | present | serpent | vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | burn | present | serpent not said here | serpent's fevered bed | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on bed=Location | ||||
| 6 | fever | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 7 | incriminate | Cloud | nom crime «act 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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