Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 1, sentence 76
He will smile at my death,--it will make him chief.
Who acts: Wakâwa, chief, my · What happens: smile, make, die · To what, where: death, Wakâwa
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, chief, my), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 smile | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 smile | aux |
| 3 | smile | smile | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 death | case |
| 5 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 death | nmod:poss |
| 6 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 smile | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 make | punct |
| 8 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 11 make | punct |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 make | nsubj |
| 10 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 make | aux |
| 11 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 smile | conj |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 make | obj |
| 13 | chief | chief | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 make | xcomp |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 smile | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | smile | future | Wakâwa | my death | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | make | future | chief | Wakâwa | chief property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material he=Product | |||
| 3 | die | my | nom death «event intransitive»: poss=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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