Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 5, sentence 56

Then merrily rose the blithe song of the _voyageurs_ homeward returning, And thus, as they glided along, sang the bugle-voiced boatmen in chorus:

Who acts: homeward, warriors, _ voyageurs · What happens: rise, return, glide, sing, voice · To what, where: blithe song, voiced boatmen, chorus

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 (homeward, warriors, _ voyageurs), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 rose	advmod
2	merrily	merrily	ADV	_	3 rose	advmod
3	rose	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 song	det
5	blithe	blithe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 song	amod
6	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 rose	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	10 voyageurs	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 voyageurs	det
9	_	_	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 voyageurs	amod
10	voyageurs	voyageur	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 song	nmod
11	_	_	PUNCT	_	12 homeward	punct
12	homeward	homeward	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 voyageurs	conj
13	returning	return	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 homeward	acl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 thus	punct
15	And	and	CCONJ	_	16 thus	cc
16	thus	thus	ADV	_	3 rose	advmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 glided	punct
18	as	as	SCONJ	_	20 glided	mark
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 glided	nsubj
20	glided	glide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 rose	conj
21	along	along	ADV	_	20 glided	advmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 sang	punct
23	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 glided	conj
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 boatmen	det
25	bugle	bugle	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 voiced	compound
26	-	-	PUNCT	_	25 bugle	punct
27	voiced	voice	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 boatmen	amod
28	boatmen	boatman	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 sang	obj
29	in	in	ADP	_	30 chorus	case
30	chorus	chorus	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 boatmen	nmod
31	:	:	PUNCT	_	3 rose	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rise	past		the blithe song of the _ voyageurs and homeward		then	merrily, thus property	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location song=Theme
2	return	gerund	homeward not said here					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	glide	past	warriors = warrior				along property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	sing speech: express	past	warriors = warrior not said here	the voiced boatmen	chorus			vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location boatman=Theme
5	voice speech: other	participle					bugle compound	vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
6	sing		the _ voyageurs and homeward					nom song «communication 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 56

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 5, sentence 56