Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 2, sentence 55
[65] "Mitâwin," [66] he said, and his voice was low, "Thy father no more is the false Little Crow; But the fairest plume shall Wiwâstè wear Of the great Wanmdeè [13] in her midnight hair.
Who acts: Mitâwin, voice, fairest plume · What happens: say, be, wear · To what, where: 65, false Little Crow, midnight hair · 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 (Mitâwin, voice, fairest plume), 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 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 2 65 | punct |
| 2 | 65 | 65 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 12 said | obl |
| 3 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 2 65 | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 Mitâwin | punct |
| 5 | Mitâwin | Mitâwin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 65 | nmod:unmarked |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 65 | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 66 | punct |
| 8 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 9 66 | punct |
| 9 | 66 | 66 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 65 | flat |
| 10 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 2 65 | punct |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 said | nsubj |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 low | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 low | cc |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 voice | nmod:poss |
| 16 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 low | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 low | cop |
| 18 | low | low | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 said | ccomp |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 father | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 father | punct |
| 21 | Thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 22 father | nmod:poss |
| 22 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 low | obl |
| 23 | no | no | ADV | _ | 24 more | advmod |
| 24 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 29 Crow | advmod |
| 25 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 Crow | cop |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 Crow | det |
| 27 | false | false | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 Crow | amod |
| 28 | Little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 Crow | amod |
| 29 | Crow | crow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 father | nmod |
| 30 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 37 wear | punct |
| 31 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 37 wear | cc |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 plume | det |
| 33 | fairest | fair | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 34 plume | amod |
| 34 | plume | plume | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 wear | nsubj |
| 35 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 37 wear | aux |
| 36 | Wiwâstè | Wiwâstè | PROPN | Number=Sing | 37 wear | compound |
| 37 | wear | wear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 said | obl |
| 38 | Of | of | ADP | _ | 41 Wanmdeè | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 Wanmdeè | det |
| 40 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 Wanmdeè | amod |
| 41 | Wanmdeè | Wanmdeè | PROPN | Number=Sing | 37 wear | nmod |
| 42 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 43 13 | punct |
| 43 | 13 | 13 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 41 Wanmdeè | appos |
| 44 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 43 13 | punct |
| 45 | in | in | ADP | _ | 48 hair | case |
| 46 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 48 hair | nmod:poss |
| 47 | midnight | midnight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 hair | compound |
| 48 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 wear | nmod |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Mitâwin | 65 Mitâwin | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is | past | Mitâwin's voice | Thy father obl; low property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | the false Little Crow | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | wear in a quote | shall | the fairest plume | plume's midnight hair | of the great Wanmdeè | tree rules |
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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