Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 5, sentence 78

Till away in the bend of the stream, where it turned and was lost in the lindens, She saw the last dip and the gleam of the oars ere they vanished forever.

Who acts: stream, Half, last dip · What happens: turn, lose, see, vanish · To what, where: lindens · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (stream, Half, last dip), 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	Till	till	ADV	_	2 away	advmod
2	away	away	ADV	_	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 bend	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 bend	det
5	bend	bend	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 away	obl
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 stream	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 stream	det
8	stream	stream	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bend	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 turned	punct
10	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	12 turned	advmod
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 turned	nsubj
12	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 stream	acl:relcl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 lost	cc
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 lost	aux:pass
15	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 turned	conj
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 lindens	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 lindens	det
18	lindens	linden	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 lost	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 saw	punct
20	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 saw	nsubj
21	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 lost	conj
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 dip	det
23	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 dip	amod
24	dip	dip	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 vanished	nsubj
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 gleam	cc
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 gleam	det
27	gleam	gleam	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 dip	conj
28	of	of	ADP	_	30 oars	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 oars	det
30	oars	oar	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 gleam	nmod
31	ere	ere	ADV	_	33 vanished	advmod
32	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 vanished	nsubj
33	vanished	vanish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 saw	ccomp
34	forever	forever	ADV	_	33 vanished	advmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 away	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	turn	past	stream			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
2	lose	past · passive	stream not said here	the lindens		vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V PP.eventuality S_ING»: in linden=Eventuality
3	see	past	Half			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	vanish	past	the last dip and the gleam of the oars		dip nsubj; ere, forever property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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 78

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 5, sentence 78