Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 3, sentence 5
Like rime-covered moss hung his beard, flowing down from his face to his girdle; And wan was his aspect and weird; and often he chanted and mumbled In a strange and mysterious tongue, as he bent o'er his book in devotion.
Who acts: Rice · What happens: cover, hang, flow down, wan, be, chant · To what, where: beard, face, aspect, strange tongue
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: who acts (Rice), 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 | Like | like | ADP | _ | 5 moss | case |
| 2 | rime | rime | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 covered | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 rime | punct |
| 4 | covered | cover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 moss | amod |
| 5 | moss | moss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 hung | obl |
| 6 | hung | hang | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 beard | nmod:poss |
| 8 | beard | beard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 hung | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 flowing | punct |
| 10 | flowing | flow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 hung | advcl |
| 11 | down | down | ADV | _ | 10 flowing | advmod |
| 12 | from | from | ADP | _ | 14 face | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 face | nmod:poss |
| 14 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 flowing | obl |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 girdle | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 girdle | nmod:poss |
| 17 | girdle | girdle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 face | nmod |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 wan | punct |
| 19 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 wan | cc |
| 20 | wan | wan | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 hung | conj |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 aspect | cop |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 aspect | nmod:poss |
| 23 | aspect | aspect | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 wan | obj |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 weird | cc |
| 25 | weird | weird | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 wan | conj |
| 26 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 30 chanted | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 chanted | cc |
| 28 | often | often | ADV | _ | 30 chanted | advmod |
| 29 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 chanted | nsubj |
| 30 | chanted | chant | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 hung | parataxis |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 mumbled | cc |
| 32 | mumbled | mumble | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 chanted | conj |
| 33 | In | in | ADP | _ | 38 tongue | case |
| 34 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 38 tongue | det |
| 35 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 tongue | amod |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 mysterious | cc |
| 37 | mysterious | mysterious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 strange | conj |
| 38 | tongue | tongue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 mumbled | obl |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 bent | punct |
| 40 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 42 bent | mark |
| 41 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 bent | nsubj |
| 42 | bent | bend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 chanted | conj |
| 43 | o'er | o'er | ADP | _ | 45 book | case |
| 44 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 45 book | nmod:poss |
| 45 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 bent | obl |
| 46 | in | in | ADP | _ | 47 devotion | case |
| 47 | devotion | devotion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 book | nmod |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 hung | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cover | participle | rime compound | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | hang | past | Rice's beard | like covered moss | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beard=Patient | ||||
| 3 | flow down | gerund | Rice's face to Rice's girdle | down property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | wan | past | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | is a | past | Rice's aspect | Rice nmod:poss | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | chant | past | Rice | often property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 7 | mumble speech: other | past | Rice not said here | a strange tongue | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 8 | bend | past | Rice | o'er Rice's book in devotion | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=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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