Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 5, sentence 2

The breeze was abroad with the breath of the rose of the Isles of the Summer, And the humming-bird hummed on the heath from his home in the land of the rain-bow.

Who acts: breeze · What happens: be, hum · To what, where: humming bird, heath

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 (breeze), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 breeze	det
2	breeze	breeze	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 breath	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 breath	cop
4	abroad	abroad	ADV	_	7 breath	advmod
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 breath	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 breath	det
7	breath	breath	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 rose	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 rose	det
10	rose	rose	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 breath	nmod
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 Isles	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Isles	det
13	Isles	Isle	PROPN	Number=Plur	10 rose	nmod
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 Summer	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Summer	det
16	Summer	Summer	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 Isles	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 bird	punct
18	And	and	CCONJ	_	22 bird	cc
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 bird	det
20	humming	humming	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 bird	compound
21	-	-	PUNCT	_	20 humming	punct
22	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 breath	conj
23	hummed	hum	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 bird	acl
24	on	on	ADP	_	26 heath	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 heath	det
26	heath	heath	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 hummed	obl
27	from	from	ADP	_	29 home	case
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 home	nmod:poss
29	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 heath	nmod
30	in	in	ADP	_	32 land	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 land	det
32	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 hummed	obl
33	of	of	ADP	_	37 bow	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 bow	det
35	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 bow	compound
36	-	-	PUNCT	_	35 rain	punct
37	bow	bow	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 land	nmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 breath	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the breeze					with the breath and the humming bird; of the rose of the Isles of the Summer; the humming bird conj; abroad property	tree rules
2	hum	participle		the humming bird not said here		the heath from bird's home		in the land of the rain bow	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on heath=Location

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 2

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 5, sentence 2