Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 4, sentence 58

They strain like a stag and a hound, when the swift river gleams through the thicket, And the horns of the rulers resound, winding shrill through the depths of the forest.

Who acts: feet, swift river, horns · What happens: strain, gleam, resound, wind · To what, where: thicket, depths

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 (feet, swift river, horns), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 strain	nsubj
2	strain	strain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	like	like	ADP	_	5 stag	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 stag	det
5	stag	stag	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 strain	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 hound	cc
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 hound	det
8	hound	hound	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stag	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 gleams	punct
10	when	when	SCONJ	_	14 gleams	mark
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 river	det
12	swift	swift	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 river	compound
13	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 gleams	nsubj
14	gleams	gleam	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 strain	parataxis
15	through	through	ADP	_	17 thicket	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 thicket	det
17	thicket	thicket	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 gleams	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 resound	punct
19	And	and	CCONJ	_	25 resound	cc
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 horns	det
21	horns	horn	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 resound	nsubj
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 rulers	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 rulers	det
24	rulers	ruler	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 horns	nmod
25	resound	resound	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 gleams	conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 winding	punct
27	winding	wind	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	25 resound	advcl
28	shrill	shrill	ADV	_	27 winding	advmod
29	through	through	ADP	_	31 depths	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 depths	det
31	depths	depth	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 winding	obl
32	of	of	ADP	_	34 forest	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 forest	det
34	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 depths	nmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 strain	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	strain	present	feet = foot		like a stag and a hound	vn wipe_manner-10.4.1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent
2	gleam	present	the swift river	the thicket		vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through thicket=Location
3	resound	infinitive	the horns of the rulers			vn sound_existence-47.4 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	wind	gerund	the horns of the rulers not said here	the depths of the forest	shrill property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme through depth=Trajectory

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 4, sentence 58

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 4, sentence 58