Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 1, sentence 66
O living breath, Whence art thou, and whither so soon to fly?
What happens: fly
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: 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 | O | of | ADP | Abbr=Yes | 3 breath | case |
| 2 | living | living | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 breath | amod |
| 3 | breath | breath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 art | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 breath | punct |
| 5 | Whence | whence | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 art | advmod |
| 6 | art | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 6 art | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 fly | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 fly | cc |
| 10 | whither | whither | ADV | PronType=Int | 14 fly | advmod |
| 11 | so | so | ADV | _ | 14 fly | advmod |
| 12 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 14 fly | advmod |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 fly | mark |
| 14 | fly | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 art | conj |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 art | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly | to-infinitive | soon, whither property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=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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