Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 1, sentence 71
Is it true?--will the spirits of kinsmen come And bid the bones of the brave arise?"
Who acts: break, spirits · What happens: be, come, bid · To what, where: bones
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 (break, spirits), 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 | Is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 true | cop |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 true | nsubj |
| 3 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 true | punct |
| 5 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 11 come | punct |
| 6 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 come | aux |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 spirits | det |
| 8 | spirits | spirit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 come | nsubj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 kinsmen | case |
| 10 | kinsmen | kinsman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 spirits | nmod |
| 11 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 true | parataxis |
| 12 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 bid | cc |
| 13 | bid | bid | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 come | conj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 bones | det |
| 15 | bones | bone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 bid | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 arise | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 arise | det |
| 18 | brave | brave | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 arise | amod |
| 19 | arise | arise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 bones | nmod |
| 20 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 true | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 true | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | break | true property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | come | future | the spirits of kinsmen | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | bid | past | the spirits of kinsmen not said here | the bones of the brave arise | tree rules |
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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