Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 5, sentence 41

But still on the swift river's strand, admiring the graceful Winona, As she gathered, with brown, dimpled hand, her hair from the wind, stood the Frenchman.

Who acts: strand · What happens: admire, gather, dimple, stand · To what, where: graceful Winona, Frenchman

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 (strand), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	8 strand	cc
2	still	still	ADV	_	8 strand	advmod
3	on	on	ADP	_	8 strand	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 river	det
5	swift	swift	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 river	compound
6	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 strand	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 river	case
8	strand	strand	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 stood	nsubj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 admiring	punct
10	admiring	admire	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 strand	acl
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Winona	det
12	graceful	graceful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 Winona	amod
13	Winona	Winona	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 admiring	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 gathered	punct
15	As	as	SCONJ	_	17 gathered	mark
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 gathered	nsubj
17	gathered	gather	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 admiring	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 hand	punct
19	with	with	ADP	_	23 hand	case
20	brown	brown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 hand	amod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 brown	punct
22	dimpled	dimple	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 hand	amod
23	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 gathered	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 hair	punct
25	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 hair	nmod:poss
26	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 hand	conj
27	from	from	ADP	_	29 wind	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 wind	det
29	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 hair	nmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 strand	punct
31	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 Frenchman	det
33	Frenchman	frenchman	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 stood	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	31 stood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	admire	gerund	the swift river's strand not said here	the graceful Winona		vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer winona=Stimulus
2	gather	past	strand		with brown dimpled hand and strand's hair from the wind	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent with hand=Co-Patient
3	dimple	participle				tree rules
4	stand	past	the swift river's strand	the Frenchman		vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer frenchman=Stimulus

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8122/12/41/

🌲 Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 5, sentence 41

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 5, sentence 41