Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 1, sentence 28
Then the sullen warrior, the tall Red Cloud, Looked up and spoke and his voice was loud; But he held his wrath and spoke with care: "Wiwâstè is young, she is proud and fair, But she may not boast of the virgin snows.
Who acts: sullen warrior, voice, Cloud, Wiwâstè, virgin · What happens: look up, speak, be, hold, not boast, snow · To what, where: wrath · 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 (sullen warrior, voice, Cloud, Wiwâstè), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 Looked | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 warrior | det |
| 3 | sullen | sullen | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 warrior | amod |
| 4 | warrior | warrior | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 Looked | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 Cloud | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Cloud | det |
| 7 | tall | tall | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 Cloud | amod |
| 8 | Red | Red | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Cloud | flat |
| 9 | Cloud | Cloud | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 warrior | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 warrior | punct |
| 11 | Looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | up | up | ADP | _ | 11 Looked | compound:prt |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 spoke | cc |
| 14 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 Looked | conj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 loud | cc |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 voice | nmod:poss |
| 17 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 loud | nsubj |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 loud | cop |
| 19 | loud | loud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 spoke | conj |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 held | punct |
| 21 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 23 held | cc |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 held | nsubj |
| 23 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 Looked | conj |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 wrath | nmod:poss |
| 25 | wrath | wrath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 held | obj |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 spoke | cc |
| 27 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 held | conj |
| 28 | with | with | ADP | _ | 29 care | case |
| 29 | care | care | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 spoke | obl |
| 30 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 34 young | punct |
| 31 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 34 young | punct |
| 32 | Wiwâstè | Wiwâstè | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 young | nsubj |
| 33 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 young | cop |
| 34 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 spoke | parataxis |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 proud | punct |
| 36 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 proud | nsubj |
| 37 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 38 proud | cop |
| 38 | proud | proud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 young | parataxis |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 fair | cc |
| 40 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 proud | conj |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 boast | punct |
| 42 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 46 boast | cc |
| 43 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 46 boast | nsubj |
| 44 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 46 boast | aux |
| 45 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 46 boast | advmod |
| 46 | boast | boast | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 Looked | conj |
| 47 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 50 snows | mark |
| 48 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 49 virgin | det |
| 49 | virgin | virgin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 snows | nsubj |
| 50 | snows | snow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 46 boast | advcl |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 Looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look up | past | the sullen warrior the tall Red Cloud | then | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | speak speech: other | past | the sullen warrior the tall Red Cloud not said here | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | past | Cloud's voice | loud property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | hold | past | Cloud | Cloud's wrath | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wrath=Theme | ||||
| 5 | speak speech: other | past | Cloud not said here | with care | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | is in a quote | present | Wiwâstè | young property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | is in a quote | present | Wiwâstè | proud property | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | be in a quote | Wiwâstè not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 9 | not boast speech: other in a quote | may | Wiwâstè | vn complain-37.8 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 10 | snow in a quote | present | the virgin | vn weather-57 «It V PP.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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