Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 5, sentence 77

From the brow of the Beautiful Isle, [a] half hid in the midst of the maples, The sad-faced Winona, the while, watched the boat growing less in the distance.

Who acts: half, boat · What happens: hide, watch, grow · To what, where: brow, boat

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 (half, boat), 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	From	from	ADP	_	3 brow	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 brow	det
3	brow	brow	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 hid	obl
4	of	of	ADP	_	7 Isle	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Isle	det
6	Beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 Isle	amod
7	Isle	Isle	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 brow	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 brow	punct
9	[	[	PUNCT	_	12 half	punct
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 half	det
11	]	]	PUNCT	_	10 a	punct
12	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	13 hid	nsubj
13	hid	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 midst	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 midst	det
16	midst	midst	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 hid	obl
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 maples	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 maples	det
19	maples	maple	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 midst	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 Winona	punct
21	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 Winona	det
22	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 faced	amod
23	-	-	PUNCT	_	22 sad	punct
24	faced	faced	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 Winona	amod
25	Winona	Winona	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 maples	nmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 while	punct
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 while	det
28	while	while	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 Winona	appos
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 watched	punct
30	watched	watch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 hid	advcl
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 boat	det
32	boat	boat	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 watched	obj
33	growing	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	32 boat	acl
34	less	less	ADV	Degree=Cmp	33 growing	advmod
35	in	in	ADP	_	37 distance	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 distance	det
37	distance	distance	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 growing	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 hid	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	hide	past	a half		the brow of the Beautiful Isle	in the midst of the maples the faced Winona	vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent from brow=Beneficiary
2	watch	past	a half not said here	the boat			vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boat=Theme
3	grow	gerund	the boat not said here			in the distance; less property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in distance=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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🌲 Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 5, sentence 77

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 5, sentence 77