Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 3, sentence 62
[a] And now at the end of the day, by the shore of the Beautiful Island, [b] A score of fair maidens and gay made joy in the midst of the waters.
Who acts: gay · What happens: make, score · To what, where: joy, midst, end, fair maidens
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 (gay), 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 | _ | 8 end | punct |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 end | det |
| 3 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 8 end | punct |
| 4 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 end | cc |
| 5 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 end | advmod |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 end | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 end | det |
| 8 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 day | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 day | det |
| 11 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 end | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 shore | punct |
| 13 | by | by | ADP | _ | 15 shore | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 shore | det |
| 15 | shore | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 end | conj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 Island | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Island | det |
| 18 | Beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 Island | amod |
| 19 | Island | Island | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 shore | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 score | punct |
| 21 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 22 b | punct |
| 22 | b | B | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 score | compound |
| 23 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 22 b | punct |
| 24 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 score | det |
| 25 | score | score | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 end | conj |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 maidens | case |
| 27 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 maidens | amod |
| 28 | maidens | maiden | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 score | nmod |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 gay | cc |
| 30 | gay | gay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 maidens | conj |
| 31 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 30 gay | acl |
| 32 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 made | obj |
| 33 | in | in | ADP | _ | 35 midst | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 midst | det |
| 35 | midst | midst | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 joy | nmod |
| 36 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 waters | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 waters | det |
| 38 | waters | water | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 midst | nmod |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 end | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | participle | gay not said here | joy | the midst of the waters | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset joy=Product | |||
| 3 | score | fair maidens and gay | nom score «cognition 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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