Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 2, sentence 41
But why did the lover so long delay?
What happens: do · To what, where: lover
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: 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 did | cc |
| 2 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 did | advmod |
| 3 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 lover | det |
| 5 | lover | lover | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 did | obj |
| 6 | so | so | ADV | _ | 7 long | advmod |
| 7 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 delay | amod |
| 8 | delay | delay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 did | obl:unmarked |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | the lover | long delay obl:unmarked | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lover=Eventuality |
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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