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Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 4, sentence 49

Like a forest of larches the hordes were gathered to witness the contest; As loud is the drums were their words and they roared like the roar of the Ha-ha.

Who acts: loud drums, drums, Ha · What happens: gather, be, roar · To what, where: hordes, loud drums, words

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 (loud drums, drums, Ha), 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

casedetoblcasenmoddetnsubj:passaux:passmarkxcompdetobjpunctcaseamodcopdetnsubjcopnmod:possoblccnsubjconjcasedetoblcasedetnmodpunctdiscoursepunctrootLikeADPaDETforestNOUNofADPlarchesNOUNtheDEThordesNOUNwereAUXgatheredVERBtoPARTwitnessNOUNtheDETcontestNOUN;PUNCTAsADPloudADJisAUXtheDETdrumsNOUNwereAUXtheirPRONwordsNOUNandCCONJtheyPRONroaredVERBlikeADPtheDETroarNOUNofADPtheDETHaPROPN-PUNCThaINTJ.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1LikelikeADP_3 forestcase
2aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art3 forestdet
3forestforestNOUNNumber=Sing9 gatheredobl
4ofofADP_5 larchescase
5larcheslarchNOUNNumber=Plur3 forestnmod
6thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art7 hordesdet
7hordeshordeNOUNNumber=Plur9 gatherednsubj:pass
8werebeAUXMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin9 gatheredaux:pass
9gatheredgatherVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Passrootroot
10totoPART_11 witnessmark
11witnesswitnessNOUNNumber=Sing9 gatheredxcomp
12thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art13 contestdet
13contestcontestNOUNNumber=Sing9 gatheredobj
14;;PUNCT_22 wordspunct
15AsasADP_16 loudcase
16loudloudADJDegree=Pos19 drumsamod
17isbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin19 drumscop
18thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art19 drumsdet
19drumsdrumNOUNNumber=Plur22 wordsnsubj
20werebeAUXMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin22 wordscop
21theirtheirPRONCase=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs22 wordsnmod:poss
22wordswordNOUNNumber=Plur9 gatheredobl
23andandCCONJ_25 roaredcc
24theytheyPRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs25 roarednsubj
25roaredroarVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin9 gatheredconj
26likelikeADP_28 roarcase
27thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art28 roardet
28roarroarNOUNNumber=Sing25 roaredobl
29ofofADP_31 Hacase
30thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art31 Hadet
31HaHaPROPNNumber=Sing28 roarnmod
32--PUNCT_33 hapunct
33hahaINTJ_31 Hadiscourse
34..PUNCT_9 gatheredpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1gatherpast · passivethe hordeslike a forest of larches; witness xcomp; the contest objvn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary contest=Theme
2is apresentthe loud drumstree rules
3is apastthe loud drumsdrums's wordsdrums = drum nmod:posstree rules
4roarpastdrums = drumlike the roar of the Havn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5roarthe Hanom roar «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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