Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 5, sentence 1

'Twas sunrise; the spirits of mist trailed their white robes on dewy savannas, And the flowers raised their heads to be kissed by the first golden beams of the morning.

Who acts: Twas sunrise, flowers, first golden beams · What happens: trail, raise, kiss, beam · To what, where: white robes, dewy savannas, heads, morning

This is a sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Feast of the Virgins., part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Twas sunrise, flowers, first golden beams), 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	'	'	PUNCT	_	3 sunrise	punct
2	Twas	twa	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 sunrise	compound
3	sunrise	sunrise	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 trailed	nsubj
4	;	;	PUNCT	_	3 sunrise	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 spirits	det
6	spirits	spirit	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 trailed	nsubj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 mist	case
8	mist	mist	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 spirits	nmod
9	trailed	trail	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 robes	nmod:poss
11	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 robes	amod
12	robes	robe	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 trailed	obj
13	on	on	ADP	_	15 savannas	case
14	dewy	dewy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 savannas	amod
15	savannas	savanna	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 trailed	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 raised	punct
17	And	and	CCONJ	_	20 raised	cc
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 flowers	det
19	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 raised	nsubj
20	raised	raise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 trailed	conj
21	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 heads	nmod:poss
22	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 raised	obj
23	to	to	PART	_	25 kissed	mark
24	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	25 kissed	aux:pass
25	kissed	kiss	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 raised	advcl
26	by	by	ADP	_	30 beams	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 beams	det
28	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	30 beams	amod
29	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 beams	amod
30	beams	beam	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 kissed	obl
31	of	of	ADP	_	33 morning	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 morning	det
33	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 beams	nmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 trailed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	trail	past	Twas sunrise	spirits's white robes	dewy savannas	the spirits of mist nsubj	vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent robe=Theme on savanna=Trajectory
2	raise	past	the flowers	spirits's heads			vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Theme
3	kiss	to-infinitive · passive	the first golden beams of the morning				vn marry-36.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	beam			the morning			nom beam «communication 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 5, sentence 1

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 5, sentence 1