Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 1, sentence 98
The tall Chief, stabbed to the heart, lies low; But his left hand clutches his deadly foe, And his red right clenches the bloody hilt Of his knife in the heart of the slayer dyed.
Who acts: tall Chief, left hand, red right, slayer · What happens: stab, lie, clutch, clench, dye · To what, where: tall Chief, deadly foe, bloody hilt, heart
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 (tall Chief, left hand, red right, slayer), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Chief | det |
| 2 | tall | tall | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Chief | amod |
| 3 | Chief | Chief | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 lies | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 stabbed | punct |
| 5 | stabbed | stab | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 Chief | acl |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 heart | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 heart | det |
| 8 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stabbed | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Chief | punct |
| 10 | lies | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | low | low | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 lies | xcomp |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 clutches | punct |
| 13 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 clutches | cc |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 hand | nmod:poss |
| 15 | left | left | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 hand | amod |
| 16 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 clutches | nsubj |
| 17 | clutches | clutch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 lies | conj |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 foe | nmod:poss |
| 19 | deadly | deadly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 foe | amod |
| 20 | foe | foe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 clutches | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 clenches | punct |
| 22 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 clenches | cc |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 right | nmod:poss |
| 24 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 right | amod |
| 25 | right | right | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 clenches | nsubj |
| 26 | clenches | clench | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 lies | conj |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 hilt | det |
| 28 | bloody | bloody | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 hilt | amod |
| 29 | hilt | hilt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 clenches | obj |
| 30 | Of | of | ADP | _ | 32 knife | case |
| 31 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 knife | nmod:poss |
| 32 | knife | knife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 hilt | nmod |
| 33 | in | in | ADP | _ | 35 heart | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 heart | det |
| 35 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 clenches | obl |
| 36 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 39 dyed | mark |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 slayer | det |
| 38 | slayer | slayer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 dyed | nsubj |
| 39 | dyed | dye | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 heart | acl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 lies | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stab | participle | the tall Chief not said here | to the heart result | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent to heart=Result | ||||
| 2 | lie | present | the tall Chief | low property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | clutch | present | panther's left hand | panther's deadly foe | vn hold-15.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent foe=Theme | ||||
| 4 | clench | present | panther's red right | the bloody hilt of panther's knife | in the heart | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent hilt=Patient in heart=Topic | |||
| 5 | dye | past | the slayer | the heart not said here | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=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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