Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 2, sentence 13
He hearkened not to a virgin's words; He listened not to a daughter's wail.
Who acts: cry, virgin, daughter · What happens: not hearken, not listen, word, wail · To what, where: words
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, virgin, daughter), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 hearkened | nsubj |
| 2 | hearkened | hearken | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 2 hearkened | advmod |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 words | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 virgin | det |
| 6 | virgin | virgin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 words | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 virgin | case |
| 8 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 hearkened | obj |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 listened | punct |
| 10 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 listened | nsubj |
| 11 | listened | listen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 hearkened | parataxis |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 listened | advmod |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 wail | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 daughter | det |
| 15 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 wail | nmod:poss |
| 16 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 15 daughter | case |
| 17 | wail | wail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 listened | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 hearkened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not hearken | past | cry | a virgin's words | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not listen | past | cry | to a daughter's wail | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to wail=Theme | ||||
| 3 | word | a virgin | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 4 | wail | a daughter | nom wail «communication intransitive»: poss=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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