Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 1, sentence 13

And her that enters the Sacred Ring With a blot that is known or a secret stain The warrior who knows is bound to expose, And lead her forth from the ring again.

Who acts: that, warrior, secret stain · What happens: enter, know, be, expose, lea · To what, where: Sacred Ring, blot, rose, ring

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 (that, warrior, secret stain), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	4 enters	cc
2	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 enters	nmod:poss
3	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 enters	nsubj
4	enters	enter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Ring	det
6	Sacred	sacred	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 Ring	amod
7	Ring	Ring	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 enters	obj
8	With	with	ADP	_	10 blot	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 blot	det
10	blot	blot	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 enters	obl
11	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 known	nsubj:pass
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 known	aux:pass
13	known	know	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 blot	acl:relcl
14	or	or	CCONJ	_	23 bound	cc
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 stain	det
16	secret	secret	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 stain	amod
17	stain	stain	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 bound	nsubj
18	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 warrior	det
19	warrior	warrior	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 bound	nsubj
20	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 knows	nsubj
21	knows	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 warrior	acl:relcl
22	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 bound	cop
23	bound	bound	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 known	conj
24	to	to	PART	_	25 expose	mark
25	expose	expose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 bound	xcomp
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 lead	punct
27	And	and	CCONJ	_	28 lead	cc
28	lead	lea	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 enters	conj
29	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 lead	obj
30	forth	forth	ADV	_	28 lead	advmod
31	from	from	ADP	_	33 ring	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 ring	det
33	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 lead	obl
34	again	again	ADV	_	33 ring	advmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 enters	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	enter	present	that		the Sacred Ring		with a blot; rose nmod:poss	vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme ring=Destination
2	know	present · passive		a blot				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus
3	know	present	the warrior					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	is	present	a secret stain				the warrior nsubj; bound property	tree rules
5	expose	to-infinitive	a secret stain not said here					vn indicate-78 «NP V how S»: agent=Pivot
6	lea	past	that not said here	rose		the ring	forth property	tree rules

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 13

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 1, sentence 13