Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 5, sentence 6
Admiring he gazed--she was fair as his own blooming Flore in her orchards, With her golden locks loose on the air, like the gleam of the sun through the olives, Far away on the vine-covered shore, in the sun-favored land of his fathers. "
Who acts: rustle, Half · What happens: admire, gaze, be, bloom, cover, favor · To what, where: favored land, Flore, orchards
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), 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 | Admiring | admire | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 fair | csubj |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 gazed | nsubj |
| 3 | gazed | gaze | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Admiring | ccomp |
| 4 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 1 Admiring | punct |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 fair | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 fair | cop |
| 7 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | as | as | ADP | _ | 10 own | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 own | nmod:poss |
| 10 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 fair | obl |
| 11 | blooming | bloom | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 fair | advcl |
| 12 | Flore | Flore | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 blooming | obj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 orchards | case |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 orchards | nmod:poss |
| 15 | orchards | orchard | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 blooming | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 locks | punct |
| 17 | With | with | ADP | _ | 20 locks | case |
| 18 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 locks | nmod:poss |
| 19 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 locks | amod |
| 20 | locks | lock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 fair | obl |
| 21 | loose | loose | ADV | _ | 24 air | advmod |
| 22 | on | on | ADP | _ | 24 air | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 air | det |
| 24 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 locks | nmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 gleam | punct |
| 26 | like | like | ADP | _ | 28 gleam | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 gleam | det |
| 28 | gleam | gleam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 locks | conj |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 sun | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 sun | det |
| 31 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 gleam | nmod |
| 32 | through | through | ADP | _ | 34 olives | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 olives | det |
| 34 | olives | olive | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 gleam | nmod |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 away | punct |
| 36 | Far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 37 away | advmod |
| 37 | away | away | ADV | _ | 28 gleam | advmod |
| 38 | on | on | ADP | _ | 43 shore | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 shore | det |
| 40 | vine | vine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 covered | compound |
| 41 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 40 vine | punct |
| 42 | covered | cover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 43 shore | amod |
| 43 | shore | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 away | obl |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 50 land | punct |
| 45 | in | in | ADP | _ | 50 land | case |
| 46 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 50 land | det |
| 47 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 favored | compound |
| 48 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 47 sun | punct |
| 49 | favored | favor | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 50 land | amod |
| 50 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 fair | obl |
| 51 | of | of | ADP | _ | 53 fathers | case |
| 52 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 53 fathers | nmod:poss |
| 53 | fathers | father | NOUN | Number=Plur | 50 land | nmod |
| 54 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 fair | punct |
| 55 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 fair | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | admire | gerund | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||||
| 2 | gaze | past | rustle | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | past | Half | the favored land of rustle's fathers | as rustle's own; with Half's golden locks on the air and the gleam of the sun through the olives; fair property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | bloom | gerund | Half not said here | Flore | Half's orchards | vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location flore=Theme | |||
| 5 | cover | participle | vine compound | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | favor | participle | sun compound | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
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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