Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 3, sentence 63

Half-robed in their dark, flowing hair, and limbed like the fair Aphroditè, They played in the waters, and there they dived and they swam like the beavers,-- Loud-laughing like loons on the lake when the moon is a round shield of silver, And the songs of the whippowils wake on the shore in the midst of the maples.

Who acts: end, moon, songs, whippowils · What happens: robe, flow, limb, play, dive, swim · To what, where: waters, lake, round shield, shore

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 (end, moon, songs, whippowils), 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	Half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	3 robed	compound
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	1 Half	punct
3	robed	robe	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	9 hair	case
5	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 hair	nmod:poss
6	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 hair	amod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 flowing	punct
8	flowing	flow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 hair	amod
9	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 robed	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 limbed	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 limbed	cc
12	limbed	limb	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 robed	conj
13	like	like	ADP	_	16 Aphroditè	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Aphroditè	det
15	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 Aphroditè	amod
16	Aphroditè	Aphroditè	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 limbed	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 played	punct
18	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 played	nsubj
19	played	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 limbed	conj
20	in	in	ADP	_	22 waters	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 waters	det
22	waters	water	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 played	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 dived	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 dived	cc
25	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	27 dived	expl
26	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 dived	nsubj
27	dived	dive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 robed	parataxis
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 swam	cc
29	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 swam	nsubj
30	swam	swim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 dived	conj
31	like	like	ADP	_	33 beavers	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 beavers	det
33	beavers	beaver	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 swam	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 laughing	punct
35	--	--	PUNCT	_	38 laughing	punct
36	Loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 laughing	amod
37	-	-	PUNCT	_	36 Loud	punct
38	laughing	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	30 swam	advcl
39	like	like	ADP	_	40 loons	case
40	loons	loon	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 laughing	obl
41	on	on	ADP	_	43 lake	case
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 lake	det
43	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 laughing	obl
44	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	50 shield	advmod
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 moon	det
46	moon	moon	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 shield	nsubj
47	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	50 shield	cop
48	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	50 shield	det
49	round	round	ADJ	Degree=Pos	50 shield	amod
50	shield	shield	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 laughing	obl
51	of	of	ADP	_	52 silver	case
52	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 shield	nmod
53	,	,	PUNCT	_	60 wake	punct
54	And	and	CCONJ	_	60 wake	cc
55	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	56 songs	det
56	songs	song	NOUN	Number=Plur	60 wake	nsubj
57	of	of	ADP	_	59 whippowils	case
58	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	59 whippowils	det
59	whippowils	whippowil	NOUN	Number=Plur	56 songs	nmod
60	wake	wake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 robed	conj
61	on	on	ADP	_	63 shore	case
62	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	63 shore	det
63	shore	shore	NOUN	Number=Sing	60 wake	obl
64	in	in	ADP	_	66 midst	case
65	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	66 midst	det
66	midst	midst	NOUN	Number=Sing	63 shore	nmod
67	of	of	ADP	_	69 maples	case
68	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	69 maples	det
69	maples	maple	NOUN	Number=Plur	66 midst	nmod
70	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 robed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	robe	participle				in end's dark flowing hair; Half compound	vn dress-41.1.1-1-2 «Passive»: agent=Pivot in hair=Theme
2	flow	gerund					vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	limb	participle				like the fair Aphroditè	tree rules
4	play	past	end		the waters		vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	dive	past	end		there		vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
6	swim	past	end			like the beavers	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	laugh	gerund	end not said here		the lake	like loons	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	is a	present	the moon	a round shield		of silver	tree rules
9	wake	present	the songs of the whippowils		the shore in the midst of the maples		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
10	sing		the whippowils				nom song «communication intransitive»: of=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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🌲 Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 3, sentence 63

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Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 3, sentence 63