Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 2, sentence 52
She told him all ere the sun was low,-- Why she fled from the Feast to a safe retreat.
Who acts: world, sun · What happens: tell, ere, be, flee · To what, where: Chaskè, Feast · 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 (world, sun), 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 told | nsubj |
| 2 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 told | iobj |
| 4 | all | all | ADV | _ | 5 ere | advmod |
| 5 | ere | ere | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 told | advcl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 sun | det |
| 7 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 low | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 low | cop |
| 9 | low | low | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 ere | ccomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 fled | punct |
| 11 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 14 fled | punct |
| 12 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 14 fled | advmod |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 fled | nsubj |
| 14 | fled | flee | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 told | conj |
| 15 | from | from | ADP | _ | 17 Feast | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Feast | det |
| 17 | Feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 fled | obl |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 retreat | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 retreat | det |
| 20 | safe | safe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 retreat | amod |
| 21 | retreat | retreat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 fled | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | world | Chaskè | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | ere | past | world not said here | all property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is | past | the sun | low property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | flee | past | world | the Feast | to a safe retreat | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme from feast=Initial_Location to retreat=Destination |
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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