Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 1, sentence 47
Like the mournful wail of a widowed bird."
Who acts: widowed bird · What happens: widow, wail
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 (widowed bird), 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 | Like | like | ADP | _ | 4 wail | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 wail | det |
| 3 | mournful | mournful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 wail | amod |
| 4 | wail | wail | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 bird | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 bird | det |
| 7 | widowed | widow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 bird | amod |
| 8 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 wail | nmod |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 wail | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 wail | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | widow | participle | vn orphan-29.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | wail | a widowed bird | nom wail «communication intransitive»: of=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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