Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 3, sentence 44

Then roared in the groves,--on the plains, --on the ice-covered lakes and the river-- The blasts of the fierce hurricanes blown abroad from the breast of Wazíya.

What happens: roar, cover, blow, blast · To what, where: groves, fierce hurricanes

This is a sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Feast of the Virgins., part 3. 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 roared	advmod
2	roared	roar	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 groves	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 groves	det
5	groves	grove	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 roared	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 plains	punct
7	--	--	PUNCT	_	10 plains	punct
8	on	on	ADP	_	10 plains	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 plains	det
10	plains	plain	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 roared	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 lakes	punct
12	--	--	PUNCT	_	18 lakes	punct
13	on	on	ADP	_	18 lakes	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 lakes	det
15	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 covered	compound
16	-	-	PUNCT	_	15 ice	punct
17	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 lakes	amod
18	lakes	lake	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 plains	nmod
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 river	cc
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 river	det
21	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 lakes	conj
22	--	--	PUNCT	_	24 blasts	punct
23	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 blasts	det
24	blasts	blast	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 plains	conj
25	of	of	ADP	_	28 hurricanes	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 hurricanes	det
27	fierce	fierce	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 hurricanes	amod
28	hurricanes	hurricane	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 blasts	nmod
29	blown	blow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 hurricanes	acl
30	abroad	abroad	ADV	_	29 blown	advmod
31	from	from	ADP	_	33 breast	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 breast	det
33	breast	breast	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 blown	obl
34	of	of	ADP	_	35 Wazíya	case
35	Wazíya	Wazíya	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 breast	nmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 roared	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	roar	past		the groves	then	on the plains on the covered lakes and the river and the blasts of the fierce hurricanes	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in grove=Location
2	cover	participle				ice compound	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme
3	blow	participle	the fierce hurricanes not said here			from the breast of Wazíya; abroad property	vn split-23.2 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient from breast=Co-Patient
4	blast		the fierce hurricanes				nom blast «act transitive»: of=patient

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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🌲 Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 3, sentence 44

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 3, sentence 44