Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 4, sentence 48
Now afar o'er the plains of the west walked the sun at the end of his journey, And forth came the brave and the guest, at the tap of the drum, for the trial.
Who acts: afar plains, Hurra, drum · What happens: walk, come, journey, tap · To what, where: sun, end, tap
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 (afar plains, Hurra, drum), 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 afar | advmod |
| 2 | afar | afar | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 plains | amod |
| 3 | o'er | o'er | ADP | _ | 5 plains | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 plains | det |
| 5 | plains | plain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 walked | nsubj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 west | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 west | det |
| 8 | west | west | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 plains | nmod |
| 9 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 sun | det |
| 11 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 walked | obj |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 end | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 end | det |
| 14 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 walked | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 journey | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 journey | nmod:poss |
| 17 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 end | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 came | punct |
| 19 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 came | cc |
| 20 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 21 came | advmod |
| 21 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 walked | conj |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 brave | det |
| 23 | brave | brave | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 came | xcomp |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 guest | cc |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 guest | det |
| 26 | guest | guest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 brave | conj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 tap | punct |
| 28 | at | at | ADP | _ | 30 tap | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 tap | det |
| 30 | tap | tap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 came | obl |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 drum | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 drum | det |
| 33 | drum | drum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 tap | nmod |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 trial | punct |
| 35 | for | for | ADP | _ | 37 trial | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 trial | det |
| 37 | trial | trial | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 came | obl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 walked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk | past | the afar plains of the west | the sun | at the end of Hurra's journey | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent sun=Theme at end=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | come | past | the afar plains of the west not said here | the tap of the drum | for the trial; brave, forth property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at tap=Location | |||
| 3 | journey | Hurra | nom journey «act transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 4 | tap | the drum | nom tap «event 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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