Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 5, sentence 4

Duluth stood alone by the roar of the Ha-ha; Tall and fair in the strength of his youth stood the blue-eyed and fair-bearded Frenchman.

Who acts: Duluth, Ha ha · What happens: stand, roar · To what, where: eyed Frenchman, strength

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 (Duluth, Ha ha), 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	Duluth	Duluth	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 stood	nsubj
2	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	alone	alone	ADV	_	2 stood	advmod
4	by	by	ADP	_	6 roar	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 roar	det
6	roar	roar	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stood	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	11 ha	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 ha	det
9	Ha	Ha	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 ha	compound
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 Ha	punct
11	ha	ha	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 roar	nmod
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 Tall	punct
13	Tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 stood	parataxis
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 fair	cc
15	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 Tall	conj
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 strength	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 strength	det
18	strength	strength	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 stood	obl
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 youth	case
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 youth	nmod:poss
21	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 strength	nmod
22	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 stood	conj
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 Frenchman	det
24	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 eyed	amod
25	-	-	PUNCT	_	24 blue	punct
26	eyed	eyed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 Frenchman	amod
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 bearded	cc
28	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 bearded	amod
29	-	-	PUNCT	_	28 fair	punct
30	bearded	bearded	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 eyed	conj
31	Frenchman	frenchman	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 stood	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 stood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	stand	past	Duluth			by the roar of the Ha ha; alone property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by roar=Location
2	stand	past	Duluth not said here	the eyed Frenchman	the strength of Duluth's youth		vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent frenchman=Theme in strength=Destination
3	roar		the Ha ha				nom roar «event intransitive»: of=agent

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 4

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 5, sentence 4