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Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 5, sentence 76

In the reeds of the meadow the stag lifts his branchy head stately and listens, And the bobolink, perched on the flag, her ear sidelong bends to the chorus.

Who acts: stag, bobolink · What happens: lift, listen, perch, bend · To what, where: branchy head, reeds, bobolink, flag, 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 (stag, bobolink), 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

casedetoblcasedetnmoddetnsubjnmod:possamodobjadvmodccconjpunctccdetnsubjpunctaclcasedetoblpunctnmod:posscompoundnsubjconjcasedetoblpunctrootInADPtheDETreedsNOUNofADPtheDETmeadowNOUNtheDETstagNOUNliftsVERBhisPRONbranchyADJheadNOUNstatelyADVandCCONJlistensVERB,PUNCTAndCCONJtheDETbobolinkNOUN,PUNCTperchedVERBonADPtheDETflagNOUN,PUNCTherPRONearNOUNsidelongNOUNbendsVERBtoADPtheDETchorusNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1IninADP_3 reedscase
2thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art3 reedsdet
3reedsreedNOUNNumber=Plur9 liftsobl
4ofofADP_6 meadowcase
5thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art6 meadowdet
6meadowmeadowNOUNNumber=Sing3 reedsnmod
7thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art8 stagdet
8stagstagNOUNNumber=Sing9 liftsnsubj
9liftsliftVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Finrootroot
10hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs12 headnmod:poss
11branchybranchyADJDegree=Pos12 headamod
12headheadNOUNNumber=Sing9 liftsobj
13statelystatelyADV_9 liftsadvmod
14andandCCONJ_15 listenscc
15listenslistenVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin9 liftsconj
16,,PUNCT_29 bendspunct
17AndandCCONJ_29 bendscc
18thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art19 bobolinkdet
19bobolinkbobolinkNOUNNumber=Sing29 bendsnsubj
20,,PUNCT_21 perchedpunct
21perchedperchVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass19 bobolinkacl
22ononADP_24 flagcase
23thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art24 flagdet
24flagflagNOUNNumber=Sing21 perchedobl
25,,PUNCT_29 bendspunct
26herherPRONCase=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs28 sidelongnmod:poss
27earearNOUNNumber=Sing28 sidelongcompound
28sidelongsidelongNOUNNumber=Sing29 bendsnsubj
29bendsbendVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin9 liftsconj
30totoADP_32 choruscase
31thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art32 chorusdet
32choruschorusNOUNNumber=Sing29 bendsobl
33..PUNCT_9 liftspunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1liftpresentthe stagstag's branchy headthe reeds of the meadowstately propertyvn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent head=Theme in reed=Destination
2listenpresentthe stag not said herevn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
3perchparticiplethe bobolink not said herethe flagvn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on flag=Location
4bendpresentthe bobolinkthe chorusbobolink's ear sidelong nsubjvn meander-47.7-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to chorus=Location

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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