Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 3, sentence 77
All the maidens were wild with delight with the flaming red robes and the ribbons, With the beads and the trinkets untold, and the fair, bearded face of the giver; And glad were they all to behold the friends from the Land of the Sunrise.
Who acts: maidens, trinkets · What happens: be, flame, behold · To what, where: trinkets, friends, Land
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 (maidens, trinkets), 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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 maidens | det:predet |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 maidens | det |
| 3 | maidens | maiden | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 wild | nsubj |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 wild | cop |
| 5 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 delight | case |
| 7 | delight | delight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 wild | obl |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 robes | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 robes | det |
| 10 | flaming | flame | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 robes | amod |
| 11 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 robes | amod |
| 12 | robes | robe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 wild | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 ribbons | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 ribbons | det |
| 15 | ribbons | ribbon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 robes | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 beads | punct |
| 17 | With | with | ADP | _ | 19 beads | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 beads | det |
| 19 | beads | bead | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 robes | conj |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 trinkets | cc |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 trinkets | det |
| 22 | trinkets | trinket | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 robes | conj |
| 23 | untold | untold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 trinkets | amod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 face | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 face | cc |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 face | det |
| 27 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 face | amod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 fair | punct |
| 29 | bearded | bearded | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 face | amod |
| 30 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 wild | obl |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 giver | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 giver | det |
| 33 | giver | giver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 face | nmod |
| 34 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 36 glad | punct |
| 35 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 glad | cc |
| 36 | glad | glad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 wild | conj |
| 37 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 they | cop |
| 38 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 glad | nsubj |
| 39 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 38 they | det |
| 40 | to | to | PART | _ | 41 behold | mark |
| 41 | behold | behold | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 36 glad | advcl |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 friends | det |
| 43 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 41 behold | obj |
| 44 | from | from | ADP | _ | 46 Land | case |
| 45 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 Land | det |
| 46 | Land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 friends | nmod |
| 47 | of | of | ADP | _ | 49 Sunrise | case |
| 48 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 49 Sunrise | det |
| 49 | Sunrise | sunrise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 Land | nmod |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 wild | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | all maidens | with delight; with the flaming red robes and the ribbons and the beads and the trinkets; the fair bearded face of the giver obl; wild property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | flame | gerund | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | be | trinkets = trinket | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | is a | past | trinkets = trinket | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | behold | to-infinitive | trinkets = trinket not said here | the friends | the Land of the Sunrise | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer friend=Stimulus |
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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