Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 1, sentence 70
Will the morning break in Wakâwa's tomb, As it breaks and glows in the eastern skies?
Who acts: morning break · What happens: break, glow · To what, where: eastern skies
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 (morning break), 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 | Will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 breaks | aux |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 break | det |
| 3 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 break | compound |
| 4 | break | break | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 breaks | nsubj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 tomb | case |
| 6 | Wakâwa | Wakâwa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 tomb | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 Wakâwa | case |
| 8 | tomb | tomb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 break | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 breaks | punct |
| 10 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 12 breaks | mark |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 breaks | nsubj |
| 12 | breaks | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 glows | cc |
| 14 | glows | glow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 breaks | conj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 skies | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 skies | det |
| 17 | eastern | eastern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 skies | amod |
| 18 | skies | sky | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 glows | obl |
| 19 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 12 breaks | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | break | future | the morning break in Wakâwa's tomb | break nsubj | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | glow | present | the morning break in Wakâwa's tomb not said here | the eastern skies | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sky=Location |
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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