Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 1, sentence 30
The warrior would fain, but he dares not spare; She is tarnished and only the Red Cloud knows."
Who acts: warrior, feast, Red Cloud · What happens: fain, not dare, not spare, tarnish, know · To what, where: Wiwâstè
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 (warrior, feast, Red 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 warrior | det |
| 2 | warrior | warrior | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 fain | nsubj |
| 3 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 fain | aux |
| 4 | fain | fain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 dares | punct |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 dares | cc |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 dares | nsubj |
| 8 | dares | dare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 fain | conj |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 dares | advmod |
| 10 | spare | spare | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 dares | xcomp |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 tarnished | punct |
| 12 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 tarnished | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 tarnished | aux:pass |
| 14 | tarnished | tarnish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 fain | parataxis |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 knows | cc |
| 16 | only | only | ADV | _ | 20 knows | advmod |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Cloud | det |
| 18 | Red | Red | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Cloud | flat |
| 19 | Cloud | Cloud | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 knows | nsubj |
| 20 | knows | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 tarnished | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 fain | punct |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 fain | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fain | would | the warrior | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | not dare | present | feast | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | not spare | infinitive | feast not said here | vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | tarnish | present · passive | Wiwâstè | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | know | present | the Red Cloud | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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