Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 1, sentence 74
And he estranged from his fathers tee, Will never return till the chief shall die.
Who acts: Wakâwa, fathers, chief · What happens: estrange, tee, not return, die
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 (Wakâwa, fathers, chief), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 estranged | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 estranged | nsubj |
| 3 | estranged | estrange | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | from | from | SCONJ | _ | 7 tee | mark |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 fathers | nmod:poss |
| 6 | fathers | father | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 tee | nsubj |
| 7 | tee | tee | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 return | advcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 tee | punct |
| 9 | Will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 return | aux |
| 10 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 11 return | advmod |
| 11 | return | return | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 estranged | ccomp |
| 12 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 16 die | mark |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 chief | det |
| 14 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 die | nsubj |
| 15 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 die | aux |
| 16 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 return | advcl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 estranged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | estrange | past | Wakâwa | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | tee | present | Wakâwa's fathers | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | not return | future | Wakâwa not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | die | shall | the chief | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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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