Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 1, sentence 92
Death shrieked in the twang of their deadly bows, And their hissing arrows drank brave men's blood.
Who acts: Death, hissing arrows · What happens: shriek, drink, twang · To what, where: twang, blood, deadly bows
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 (Death, hissing arrows), 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 | Death | Death | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 shrieked | nsubj |
| 2 | shrieked | shriek | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 twang | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 twang | det |
| 5 | twang | twang | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 shrieked | obl |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 bows | case |
| 7 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 bows | nmod:poss |
| 8 | deadly | deadly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 bows | amod |
| 9 | bows | bow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 twang | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 drank | punct |
| 11 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 drank | cc |
| 12 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 arrows | nmod:poss |
| 13 | hissing | hissing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 arrows | compound |
| 14 | arrows | arrow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 drank | nsubj |
| 15 | drank | drink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 shrieked | conj |
| 16 | brave | brave | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 men | amod |
| 17 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 blood | nmod:poss |
| 18 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 17 men | case |
| 19 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 drank | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 shrieked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shriek | past | Death | the twang of warriors's deadly bows | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in twang=Location | ||||
| 2 | drink | past | warriors's hissing arrows | brave men's blood | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blood=Patient | ||||
| 3 | twang | warriors's deadly bows | nom twang «event transitive»: of=patient |
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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