Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 2, sentence 28
She hid like a grouse in the meadow-grass, And moaned--"I am lost!--I am lost! alas; And why did I fly my native land To die by the cruel Ojibway's hand?"
Who acts: band · What happens: hide, moan, lose, fly, die · To what, where: meadow grass, band, native land · 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 (band), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 hid | nsubj |
| 2 | hid | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | like | like | ADP | _ | 5 grouse | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 grouse | det |
| 5 | grouse | grouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 hid | obl |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 grass | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 grass | det |
| 8 | meadow | meadow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 grass | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 meadow | punct |
| 10 | grass | grass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 hid | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 moaned | punct |
| 12 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 moaned | cc |
| 13 | moaned | moan | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 hid | parataxis |
| 14 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 18 lost | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 lost | punct |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 lost | nsubj |
| 17 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 lost | aux:pass |
| 18 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 moaned | ccomp |
| 19 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 18 lost | punct |
| 20 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 23 lost | punct |
| 21 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 lost | nsubj |
| 22 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 lost | aux:pass |
| 23 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 moaned | conj |
| 24 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 25 alas | punct |
| 25 | alas | ala | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 lost | obl |
| 26 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 31 fly | punct |
| 27 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 fly | cc |
| 28 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 31 fly | advmod |
| 29 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 fly | aux |
| 30 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 31 fly | nsubj |
| 31 | fly | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 hid | advcl |
| 32 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 land | nmod:poss |
| 33 | native | native | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 land | amod |
| 34 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 fly | obj |
| 35 | To | to | PART | _ | 36 die | mark |
| 36 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 fly | advcl |
| 37 | by | by | ADP | _ | 42 hand | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 Ojibway | det |
| 39 | cruel | cruel | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 Ojibway | amod |
| 40 | Ojibway | Ojibway | PROPN | Number=Sing | 42 hand | nmod:poss |
| 41 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 40 Ojibway | case |
| 42 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 die | obl |
| 43 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 hid | punct |
| 44 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 hid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hide | past | band | the meadow grass | like a grouse | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in grass=Location | |||
| 2 | moan | past | vn complain-37.8 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 3 | lose in a quote | present · passive | band | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | lose in a quote | present · passive | band | alas obl | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | ||||
| 5 | fly in a quote | past · do-support | band | my native land | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location land=Theme | ||||
| 6 | die in a quote | to-infinitive | band not said here | by the cruel Ojibway's hand | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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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