Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 2, sentence 12

The cry of Wiwâstè, O mother, hear it; And touch the heart of my cruel father.

Who acts: cry, Wiwâstè · What happens: hear, touch, cry · To what, where: river, heart

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 (cry, Wiwâstè), 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	2 cry	det
2	cry	cry	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 hear	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 Wiwâstè	case
4	Wiwâstè	Wiwâstè	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 cry	nmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 mother	punct
6	O	o	INTJ	_	7 mother	discourse
7	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 cry	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 cry	punct
9	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 hear	obj
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 touch	punct
12	And	and	CCONJ	_	13 touch	cc
13	touch	touch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 hear	conj
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 heart	det
15	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 touch	obj
16	of	of	ADP	_	19 father	case
17	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 father	nmod:poss
18	cruel	cruel	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 father	amod
19	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 heart	nmod
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 hear	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	hear	infinitive	the cry of Wiwâstè and mother	river	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
2	touch	infinitive	the cry of Wiwâstè and mother not said here	the heart of my cruel father	vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme heart=Co-Theme
3	cry		Wiwâstè		nom cry «communication intransitive»: of=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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🌲 Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 2, sentence 12

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 2, sentence 12