Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 2, sentence 20
With the precious gift of his priceless manna God fed his fainting and famished child.
Who acts: God · What happens: feed, famish, gift · To what, where: fainting, child, priceless manna
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 (God), 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 | With | with | ADP | _ | 4 gift | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 gift | det |
| 3 | precious | precious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 gift | amod |
| 4 | gift | gift | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 fed | obl |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 manna | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 manna | nmod:poss |
| 7 | priceless | priceless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 manna | amod |
| 8 | manna | manna | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gift | nmod |
| 9 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 fed | nsubj |
| 10 | fed | feed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 fainting | nmod:poss |
| 12 | fainting | fainting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 fed | obj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 famished | cc |
| 14 | famished | famish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 fed | conj |
| 15 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 famished | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 fed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feed | past | God | god's fainting | with the precious gift of cry's priceless manna | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fainting=Recipient | |||
| 2 | famish | past | God not said here | child | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | gift | cry's priceless manna | nom gift «possession 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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