Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 1, sentence 29
The Virgins Feast is a Sacred thing: How durst she enter the Virgins ring?
Who acts: Virgins Feast, Wiwâstè · What happens: be, enter · To what, where: Sacred thing, Virgins 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 (Virgins Feast, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Feast | det |
| 2 | Virgins | Virgins | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Feast | compound |
| 3 | Feast | Feast | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 thing | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 thing | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 thing | det |
| 6 | Sacred | sacred | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 thing | amod |
| 7 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 12 enter | punct |
| 9 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 durst | advmod |
| 10 | durst | durst | ADV | _ | 12 enter | advmod |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 enter | nsubj |
| 12 | enter | enter | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 thing | parataxis |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 ring | det |
| 14 | Virgins | Virgin | PROPN | Number=Plur | 15 ring | compound |
| 15 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 enter | obj |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 thing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the Virgins Feast | a Sacred thing | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | enter | infinitive | Wiwâstè | the Virgins ring | durst property | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme ring=Destination |
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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