Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 2, sentence 50
Let the myriad tongues of the earth confess His infinite love and his holiness; For his pity pities the pitiless, His wayward children his bounties bless, And his mercy flows to the merciless; And the countless worlds in the realms above, Revolve in the light of his boundless love.
Who acts: you, myriad tongues, wayward children, mercy, countless worlds, Chaskè · What happens: let, confess, pity, bless, flow, revolve · To what, where: myriad tongues, infinite love, pitiless, light, boundless love
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 (you, myriad tongues, wayward children, mercy), 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 | Let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 tongues | det |
| 3 | myriad | myriad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 tongues | compound |
| 4 | tongues | tongue | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Let | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 earth | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 earth | det |
| 7 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 tongues | nmod |
| 8 | confess | confess | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Let | xcomp |
| 9 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 love | nmod:poss |
| 10 | infinite | infinite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 love | amod |
| 11 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 confess | obj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 holiness | cc |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 holiness | nmod:poss |
| 14 | holiness | holiness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 love | conj |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 pities | punct |
| 16 | For | for | ADP | _ | 18 pity | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 pity | nmod:poss |
| 18 | pity | pity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 pities | obl |
| 19 | pities | pity | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Let | parataxis |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 pitiless | det |
| 21 | pitiless | pitiless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 pities | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 bless | punct |
| 23 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 children | nmod:poss |
| 24 | wayward | wayward | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 children | amod |
| 25 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 bless | nsubj |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 bounties | nmod:poss |
| 27 | bounties | bounty | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 bless | nsubj |
| 28 | bless | bless | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 pities | conj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 flows | punct |
| 30 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 flows | cc |
| 31 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 mercy | nmod:poss |
| 32 | mercy | mercy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 flows | nsubj |
| 33 | flows | flow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 bless | conj |
| 34 | to | to | ADP | _ | 36 merciless | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 merciless | det |
| 36 | merciless | merciless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 flows | obl |
| 37 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 47 Revolve | punct |
| 38 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 47 Revolve | cc |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 worlds | det |
| 40 | countless | countless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 worlds | amod |
| 41 | worlds | world | NOUN | Number=Plur | 47 Revolve | nsubj |
| 42 | in | in | ADP | _ | 44 realms | case |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 realms | det |
| 44 | realms | realm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 41 worlds | nmod |
| 45 | above | above | ADV | _ | 44 realms | advmod |
| 46 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 Revolve | punct |
| 47 | Revolve | revolve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Let | parataxis |
| 48 | in | in | ADP | _ | 50 light | case |
| 49 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 50 light | det |
| 50 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 Revolve | obl |
| 51 | of | of | ADP | _ | 54 love | case |
| 52 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 54 love | nmod:poss |
| 53 | boundless | boundless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 54 love | amod |
| 54 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 light | nmod |
| 55 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | imperative | you not said here | the myriad tongues of the earth | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | confess | infinitive | the myriad tongues of the earth not said here | Chaskè's infinite love and Chaskè's holiness | vn confess-37.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent love=Topic | ||||
| 3 | pity | present | the pitiless | for Chaskè's pity | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer pitiless=Stimulus for pity=Attribute | ||||
| 4 | bless | present | Chaskè's wayward children | Chaskè's bounties nsubj | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | flow | present | Chaskè's mercy | to the merciless | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | revolve | present | the countless worlds in the realms | the light of Chaskè's boundless love | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme in light=Trajectory | ||||
| 7 | love | Chaskè | nom love «feeling transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 8 | pity | Chaskè | nom pity «feeling transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 9 | light | Chaskè's boundless love | nom light «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 10 | love | Chaskè | nom love «feeling transitive»: 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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