Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 2, sentence 93
The belle of the village was she, and the pride of the aged Ta-té-psin, Like a sunbeam she lighted his tee, and gladdened the heart of her father.
Who acts: belle, Ta, WINONA · What happens: be, light, gladden · To what, where: WINONA, té psin, tee, heart, pride
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 (belle, Ta, WINONA), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 belle | det |
| 2 | belle | belle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 she | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 village | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 village | det |
| 5 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 belle | nmod |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 she | cop |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 pride | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 she | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 pride | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 pride | det |
| 11 | pride | pride | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 12 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 19 psin | mark |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 psin | det |
| 14 | aged | age | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 19 psin | cop |
| 15 | Ta | Ta | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 psin | nsubj |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 Ta | punct |
| 17 | té | té | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 psin | compound |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 psin | punct |
| 19 | psin | psin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 pride | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 sunbeam | punct |
| 21 | Like | like | ADP | _ | 23 sunbeam | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 sunbeam | det |
| 23 | sunbeam | sunbeam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 psin | appos |
| 24 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 lighted | nsubj |
| 25 | lighted | light | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 sunbeam | acl:relcl |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 tee | nmod:poss |
| 27 | tee | tee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 lighted | obj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 gladdened | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 gladdened | cc |
| 30 | gladdened | gladden | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 lighted | conj |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 heart | det |
| 32 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 gladdened | obj |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 father | case |
| 34 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 father | nmod:poss |
| 35 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 heart | nmod |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 pride | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the belle of the village | WINONA | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a | participle | Ta | the té psin | a sunbeam appos | tree rules | |||
| 3 | light | past | WINONA | Ta's tee | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tee=Product | ||||
| 4 | gladden | past | WINONA not said here | the heart of WINONA's father | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus heart=Experiencer |
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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