Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 1, sentence 87
As the robin returns and the whippowil When my warriors stand on the sacred hill And remember the deeds of their brave chief slain."
Who acts: warriors · What happens: return, stand, remember · To what, where: sacred hill, deeds
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 (warriors), 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 | As | as | ADP | _ | 3 robin | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 robin | det |
| 3 | robin | robin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 returns | obl |
| 4 | returns | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 whippowil | cc |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 whippowil | det |
| 7 | whippowil | whippowil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 returns | conj |
| 8 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 11 stand | mark |
| 9 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 warriors | nmod:poss |
| 10 | warriors | warrior | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 stand | nsubj |
| 11 | stand | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 returns | advcl |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 hill | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 hill | det |
| 14 | sacred | sacred | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 hill | amod |
| 15 | hill | hill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 stand | obl |
| 16 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 remember | cc |
| 17 | remember | remember | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 stand | conj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 deeds | det |
| 19 | deeds | deed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 remember | obj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 slain | case |
| 21 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 slain | nmod:poss |
| 22 | brave | brave | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 slain | amod |
| 23 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 slain | compound |
| 24 | slain | slain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 deeds | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 returns | punct |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 returns | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | present | as the robin; the whippowil conj | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | stand | present | my warriors | the sacred hill | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on hill=Location | ||||
| 3 | remember | infinitive | my warriors not said here | the deeds of warriors's brave chief slain | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent deed=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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