Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 1, sentence 25

She turned to the chief with her frantic cries: "Wakâwa--my Father; he lies!--he lies!

Who acts: morsel, Father · What happens: turn, lie, cry · 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 (morsel, Father), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 turned	nsubj
2	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 chief	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 chief	det
5	chief	chief	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 turned	obl
6	with	with	ADP	_	9 cries	case
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 cries	nmod:poss
8	frantic	frantic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 cries	amod
9	cries	cry	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 turned	obl
10	:	:	PUNCT	_	12 Wakâwa	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 Wakâwa	punct
12	Wakâwa	Wakâwa	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 cries	nmod
13	--	--	PUNCT	_	15 Father	punct
14	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 Father	nmod:poss
15	Father	Father	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 Wakâwa	appos
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 lies	punct
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 lies	nsubj
18	lies	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 turned	parataxis
19	!	!	PUNCT	_	18 lies	punct
20	--	--	PUNCT	_	22 lies	punct
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 lies	nsubj
22	lies	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 lies	conj
23	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 turned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	turn	past	morsel	to the chief; with morsel's frantic cries Wakâwa	tree rules
2	lie in a quote	present	Father		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	lie in a quote	present	Father		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	cry		morsel		nom cry «communication 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 25

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 1, sentence 25