Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 3, sentence 60
[71] The band lay at rest in the tees at Ka-thá-ga, And abroad o'er the beautiful land walked the spirits of Peace and of Plenty-- Twin sisters, with bountiful hand, wide scatt'ring wild rice and the lilies.
Who acts: 71, beautiful land · What happens: lay, walk, scatt'r · To what, where: rest, spirits, wild rice
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 (71, beautiful land), 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 71 | punct |
| 2 | 71 | 71 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 lay | nsubj |
| 3 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 2 71 | punct |
| 4 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 band | det |
| 5 | band | band | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lay | nsubj |
| 6 | lay | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 rest | case |
| 8 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lay | obl |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 tees | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 tees | det |
| 11 | tees | tee | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 lay | obl |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 ga | case |
| 13 | Ka | Ka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 ga | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 Ka | punct |
| 15 | thá | thá | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 ga | compound |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 thá | punct |
| 17 | ga | ga | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 tees | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 walked | punct |
| 19 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 walked | cc |
| 20 | abroad | abroad | ADV | _ | 25 walked | advmod |
| 21 | o'er | o'er | SCONJ | _ | 25 walked | mark |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 land | det |
| 23 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 land | amod |
| 24 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 walked | nsubj |
| 25 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 lay | parataxis |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 spirits | det |
| 27 | spirits | spirit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 walked | obj |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 Peace | case |
| 29 | Peace | Peace | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 spirits | nmod |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 Plenty | cc |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 Plenty | case |
| 32 | Plenty | Plenty | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 Peace | conj |
| 33 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 35 sisters | punct |
| 34 | Twin | Twin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 sisters | compound |
| 35 | sisters | sister | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 Peace | conj |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 hand | punct |
| 37 | with | with | ADP | _ | 39 hand | case |
| 38 | bountiful | bountiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 hand | amod |
| 39 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 walked | obl |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 wide | punct |
| 41 | wide | wide | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 hand | amod |
| 42 | scatt'ring | scatt'r | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 41 wide | advcl |
| 43 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 rice | amod |
| 44 | rice | rice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 scatt'ring | obj |
| 45 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 47 lilies | cc |
| 46 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 47 lilies | det |
| 47 | lilies | lily | NOUN | Number=Plur | 44 rice | conj |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 lay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lay | present | 71 | rest | in the tees at Ka thá ga; the band nsubj | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent at rest=Destination | |||
| 2 | walk | past | the beautiful land | the spirits of Peace and Plenty and Twin sisters | with bountiful hand; abroad property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme spirit=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | scatt'r | gerund | the beautiful land not said here | wild rice and the lilies | 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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