Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 1, sentence 4
[21] In the polished bowls lies the golden maize And the flesh of fawn on the polished trays.
Who acts: 21 · What happens: polish, lie · To what, where: golden maize
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 (21), 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 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 2 21 | punct |
| 2 | 21 | 21 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 lies | nsubj |
| 3 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 2 21 | punct |
| 4 | In | in | ADP | _ | 7 bowls | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 bowls | det |
| 6 | polished | polish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 bowls | amod |
| 7 | bowls | bowl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 21 | nmod |
| 8 | lies | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 maize | det |
| 10 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 maize | amod |
| 11 | maize | maize | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 lies | obj |
| 12 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 flesh | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 flesh | det |
| 14 | flesh | flesh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 maize | conj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 fawn | case |
| 16 | fawn | fawn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 flesh | nmod |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 trays | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 trays | det |
| 19 | polished | polish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 trays | amod |
| 20 | trays | tray | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 fawn | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 lies | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | polish | participle | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | lie | present | 21 in the polished bowls | the golden maize and the flesh of fawn on the polished trays | vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location maize=Theme | ||||
| 3 | polish | participle | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=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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