Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 5, sentence 32
For death, like a shadow, will walk by thy side in the midst of the forest, Or follow thy path like a hawk on the trail of a wounded Mastinca.
What happens: walk, follow · To what, where: midst, path, trail
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: 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 2 death | case |
| 2 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 walk | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 shadow | punct |
| 4 | like | like | ADP | _ | 6 shadow | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 shadow | det |
| 6 | shadow | shadow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 death | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 death | punct |
| 8 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 walk | aux |
| 9 | walk | walk | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | by | by | ADP | _ | 12 side | case |
| 11 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 12 side | nmod:poss |
| 12 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 walk | obl |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 midst | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 midst | det |
| 15 | midst | midst | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 walk | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 forest | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 forest | det |
| 18 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 midst | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 follow | punct |
| 20 | Or | or | CCONJ | _ | 21 follow | cc |
| 21 | follow | follow | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 9 walk | conj |
| 22 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 23 path | nmod:poss |
| 23 | path | path | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 follow | obj |
| 24 | like | like | ADP | _ | 26 hawk | case |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 hawk | det |
| 26 | hawk | hawk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 follow | obl |
| 27 | on | on | ADP | _ | 29 trail | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 trail | det |
| 29 | trail | trail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 follow | obl |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 Mastinca | case |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 Mastinca | det |
| 32 | wounded | wounded | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 Mastinca | amod |
| 33 | Mastinca | Mastinca | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 trail | nmod |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 walk | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk | future | the midst of the forest | for death and a shadow; by thy side | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by side=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | follow | infinitive | thy path | the trail of a wounded Mastinca | like a hawk | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent path=Theme on trail=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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