Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 5, sentence 5
A rustle of robes on the grass broke his dream as he mused by the waters, And, turning, he looked on the face of Winona, wild rose of the prairies, Half hid in her forest of hair, like the round, golden moon in the pine tops.
Who acts: rustle, Half, robes · What happens: break, muse, turn, look, hide, rustle · To what, where: dream, forest
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 (rustle, Half, robes), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 rustle | det |
| 2 | rustle | rustle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 broke | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 robes | case |
| 4 | robes | robe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 rustle | nmod |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 grass | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 grass | det |
| 7 | grass | grass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 robes | nmod |
| 8 | broke | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 dream | nmod:poss |
| 10 | dream | dream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 broke | obj |
| 11 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 13 mused | mark |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 mused | nsubj |
| 13 | mused | muse | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 broke | advcl |
| 14 | by | by | ADP | _ | 16 waters | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 waters | det |
| 16 | waters | water | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 mused | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 looked | punct |
| 18 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 looked | cc |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 turning | punct |
| 20 | turning | turn | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 23 looked | advcl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 turning | punct |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 looked | nsubj |
| 23 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 broke | parataxis |
| 24 | on | on | ADP | _ | 26 face | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 face | det |
| 26 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 looked | obl |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 Winona | case |
| 28 | Winona | Winona | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 face | nmod |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 rose | punct |
| 30 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 rose | amod |
| 31 | rose | rose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 face | conj |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 prairies | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 prairies | det |
| 34 | prairies | prairie | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 rose | nmod |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 hid | punct |
| 36 | Half | Half | PROPN | Number=Sing | 37 hid | nsubj |
| 37 | hid | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 looked | conj |
| 38 | in | in | ADP | _ | 40 forest | case |
| 39 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 40 forest | nmod:poss |
| 40 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 hid | obl |
| 41 | of | of | ADP | _ | 42 hair | case |
| 42 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 forest | nmod |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 round | punct |
| 44 | like | like | ADP | _ | 46 round | case |
| 45 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 round | det |
| 46 | round | round | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 hid | obl |
| 47 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 49 moon | punct |
| 48 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 49 moon | amod |
| 49 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 round | conj |
| 50 | in | in | ADP | _ | 53 tops | case |
| 51 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 53 tops | det |
| 52 | pine | pine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 53 tops | compound |
| 53 | tops | top | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 hid | obl |
| 54 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 broke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | break | past | a rustle of robes on the grass | rustle's dream | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer dream=Patient | ||||
| 2 | muse | past | rustle | by the waters | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | turn | gerund | rustle not said here | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | look | past | rustle | on the face of Winona and wild rose of the prairies | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on face=Theme | ||||
| 5 | hide | past | Half | Half's forest of hair | like the round and golden moon; in the pine tops | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in forest=Location | |||
| 6 | rustle | robes on the grass | nom rustle «event intransitive»: of=agent | ||||||
| 7 | dream | rustle | nom dream «cognition transitive»: poss=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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