Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 4, sentence 25
Now swift from the lake they return, o'er the emerald hills and the heather; Like grey-hounds they pant and they yearn, and the leader of all is Tamdóka.
Who acts: you, runners, leader · What happens: swift, return, pant, yearn, be · To what, where: lake, grey hounds, Tamdóka
This is a sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Feast of the Virgins., part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, runners, leader), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 swift | advmod |
| 2 | swift | swift | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | from | from | ADP | _ | 5 lake | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 lake | det |
| 5 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 swift | obl |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 return | nsubj |
| 7 | return | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 lake | acl:relcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 hills | punct |
| 9 | o'er | o'er | ADP | _ | 12 hills | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 hills | det |
| 11 | emerald | emerald | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 hills | compound |
| 12 | hills | hill | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 swift | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 heather | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 heather | det |
| 15 | heather | heather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 hills | conj |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 hounds | punct |
| 17 | Like | like | ADP | _ | 20 hounds | case |
| 18 | grey | grey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 hounds | compound |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 grey | punct |
| 20 | hounds | hound | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 swift | obl |
| 21 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 pant | nsubj |
| 22 | pant | pant | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 hounds | acl:relcl |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 yearn | cc |
| 24 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 yearn | nsubj |
| 25 | yearn | yearn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 pant | conj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 Tamdóka | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 Tamdóka | cc |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 leader | det |
| 29 | leader | leader | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 Tamdóka | nsubj |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 all | case |
| 31 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 29 leader | nmod |
| 32 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 Tamdóka | cop |
| 33 | Tamdóka | Tamdóka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 swift | obl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 swift | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | swift | imperative | you not said here | the lake | now | o'er the emerald hills and the heather; like grey hounds | tree rules | ||
| 2 | return | present | runners = runner | the lake not said here | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lake=Theme | ||||
| 3 | pant | present | runners = runner | grey hounds not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hound=Topic | ||||
| 4 | yearn | present | runners = runner | vn long-32.2-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 5 | is a | present | the leader of all | Tamdóka | 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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