Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 4, sentence 71

In the hollow earth, dark and profound, Unktéhee and fiery Wakín-yan Long fought and the terrible sound of the battle was louder than thunder; The mountains were heaved and around were scattered the hills and the boulders, And the vast solid plains of the ground rose and fell like the waves of the ocean.

Who acts: Unktéhee, terrible sound, vast solid plains · What happens: fight, be, heave, scatter, rise, fall · To what, where: hollow earth, mountains, hills, ocean

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 (Unktéhee, terrible sound, vast solid plains), 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	In	in	ADP	_	4 earth	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 earth	det
3	hollow	hollow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 earth	amod
4	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 fought	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 dark	punct
6	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 earth	amod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 profound	cc
8	profound	profound	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 dark	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 Unktéhee	punct
10	Unktéhee	Unktéhee	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 fought	nsubj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 yan	cc
12	fiery	fiery	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 yan	amod
13	Wakín	Wakín	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 yan	compound
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 Wakín	punct
15	yan	yan	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 Unktéhee	conj
16	Long	Long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 yan	appos
17	fought	fight	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 louder	cc
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 sound	det
20	terrible	terrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 sound	amod
21	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 louder	nsubj
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 battle	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 battle	det
24	battle	battle	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 sound	nmod
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 louder	cop
26	louder	loud	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	17 fought	conj
27	than	than	ADP	_	28 thunder	case
28	thunder	thunder	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 louder	obl
29	;	;	PUNCT	_	33 heaved	punct
30	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 mountains	det
31	mountains	mountain	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 heaved	nsubj:pass
32	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 heaved	aux:pass
33	heaved	heave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 fought	parataxis
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 scattered	cc
35	around	around	ADV	_	37 scattered	advmod
36	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 scattered	aux:pass
37	scattered	scatter	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	33 heaved	conj
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 hills	det
39	hills	hill	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 scattered	obj
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 boulders	cc
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 boulders	det
42	boulders	boulder	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 hills	conj
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 rose	punct
44	And	and	CCONJ	_	52 rose	cc
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 plains	det
46	vast	vast	ADJ	Degree=Pos	48 plains	amod
47	solid	solid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	48 plains	amod
48	plains	plain	NOUN	Number=Plur	52 rose	nsubj
49	of	of	ADP	_	51 ground	case
50	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	51 ground	det
51	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 plains	nmod
52	rose	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 fought	conj
53	and	and	CCONJ	_	54 fell	cc
54	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	52 rose	conj
55	like	like	ADP	_	57 waves	case
56	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	57 waves	det
57	waves	wave	NOUN	Number=Plur	54 fell	obl
58	of	of	ADP	_	60 ocean	case
59	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	60 ocean	det
60	ocean	ocean	NOUN	Number=Sing	57 waves	nmod
61	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 fought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	fight	past	Unktéhee and fiery Wakín yan		the hollow earth		vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	the terrible sound of the battle			than thunder; loud property	tree rules
3	heave	past · passive		the mountains			vn push-12 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
4	scatter	past · passive		the hills and the boulders		around property	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: hill=Theme
5	rise	past	the vast solid plains of the ground				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	fall	past	the vast solid plains of the ground not said here			like the waves of the ocean	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	wave			the ocean			nom wave «event transitive»: of=patient

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 71

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Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 4, sentence 71