Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 2, sentence 11
In her heart she spoke to her spirit-mother: "Look down from your teepee, O starry spirit.
Who acts: long · What happens: speak, look down · To what, where: heart · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Feast of the Virgins., part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (long), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 heart | case |
| 2 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 heart | nmod:poss |
| 3 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 spoke | obl |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 spoke | nsubj |
| 5 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 mother | case |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 mother | nmod:poss |
| 8 | spirit | spirit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 mother | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 spirit | punct |
| 10 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 spoke | obl |
| 11 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 13 Look | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 Look | punct |
| 13 | Look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 spoke | conj |
| 14 | down | down | ADP | _ | 13 Look | compound:prt |
| 15 | from | from | ADP | _ | 17 teepee | case |
| 16 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 teepee | nmod:poss |
| 17 | teepee | teepee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 Look | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 spirit | punct |
| 19 | O | of | ADP | Abbr=Yes | 21 spirit | case |
| 20 | starry | starry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 spirit | amod |
| 21 | spirit | spirit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 Look | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 spoke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | past | long | long's heart | to long's spirit mother | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to mother=Co-Agent | |||
| 2 | look down in a quote | infinitive | long not said here | from your teepee; starry spirit conj | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent from teepee=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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