Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 5, sentence 34
Slumber not like the grouse of the woodlands, With head under wing, for the glare of the eyes that sleep not are upon thee."
Who acts: eyes · What happens: not sleep, be
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 (eyes), 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 | Slumber | slumber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 grouse | nsubj |
| 2 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 grouse | advmod |
| 3 | like | like | ADP | _ | 5 grouse | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 grouse | det |
| 5 | grouse | grouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 woodlands | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 woodlands | det |
| 8 | woodlands | woodland | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 grouse | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 head | punct |
| 10 | With | with | ADP | _ | 11 head | case |
| 11 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 grouse | conj |
| 12 | under | under | ADP | _ | 13 wing | case |
| 13 | wing | wing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 head | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 glare | punct |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 glare | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 glare | det |
| 17 | glare | glare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 grouse | conj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 eyes | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 eyes | det |
| 20 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 glare | nmod |
| 21 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 sleep | nsubj |
| 22 | sleep | sleep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 eyes | acl:relcl |
| 23 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 22 sleep | advmod |
| 24 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 thee | cop |
| 25 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 26 thee | case |
| 26 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 17 glare | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 grouse | punct |
| 28 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 grouse | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not sleep | present | the eyes | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | present | upon thee | tree rules |
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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