Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 1, sentence 125
I turned his love to a bitter hate; I nourished revenge, and I pricked his pride; Till the Feast of the Virgins I bade him wait.
Who acts: I, Cloud · What happens: turn, nourish, prick, bade, wait, love · To what, where: love, bitter hate, revenge, pride, Cloud
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 (I, Cloud), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 turned | nsubj |
| 2 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 love | nmod:poss |
| 4 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 turned | obj |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 hate | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 hate | det |
| 7 | bitter | bitter | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 hate | amod |
| 8 | hate | hate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 turned | obl |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 nourished | punct |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 nourished | nsubj |
| 11 | nourished | nourish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 turned | conj |
| 12 | revenge | revenge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 nourished | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 pricked | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 pricked | cc |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 pricked | nsubj |
| 16 | pricked | prick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 turned | parataxis |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 pride | nmod:poss |
| 18 | pride | pride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 pricked | obj |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 27 bade | punct |
| 20 | Till | till | ADP | _ | 22 Feast | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 Feast | det |
| 22 | Feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 bade | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 Virgins | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 Virgins | det |
| 25 | Virgins | Virgin | PROPN | Number=Plur | 22 Feast | nmod |
| 26 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 27 bade | nsubj |
| 27 | bade | bade | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 pricked | conj |
| 28 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 bade | obj |
| 29 | wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 bade | xcomp |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 turned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | past | I | Cloud's love | a bitter hate | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent love=Theme to hate=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | nourish | past | I | revenge | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent revenge=Patient | ||||
| 3 | prick | past | I | Cloud's pride | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer pride=Patient | ||||
| 4 | bade | past | I | Cloud | till the Feast of the Virgins | tree rules | |||
| 5 | wait | infinitive | I not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | love | Cloud | nom love «feeling transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 7 | pride | Cloud | nom pride «feeling 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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