Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 5, sentence 8

[b] Said Winona,--"The wail of the sprite for her babe and its father unfaithful, Is heard in the midst of the night, when the moon wanders dim in the heavens."

Who acts: moon, sprite · What happens: hear, wander, wail · To what, where: Said, midst

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 (moon, sprite), 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	[	[	PUNCT	_	2 b	punct
2	b	b	NUM	_	4 Said	discourse
3	]	]	PUNCT	_	2 b	punct
4	Said	Said	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 heard	nsubj:pass
5	Winona	Winona	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Said	flat
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 wail	punct
7	--	--	PUNCT	_	10 wail	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 wail	punct
9	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 wail	det
10	wail	wail	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 Said	appos
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 sprite	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 sprite	det
13	sprite	sprite	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 wail	nmod
14	for	for	ADP	_	16 babe	case
15	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 babe	nmod:poss
16	babe	babe	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 sprite	nmod
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 father	cc
18	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 father	nmod:poss
19	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 babe	conj
20	unfaithful	unfaithful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 father	amod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 Said	punct
22	Is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 heard	aux:pass
23	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
24	in	in	ADP	_	26 midst	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 midst	det
26	midst	midst	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 heard	obl
27	of	of	ADP	_	29 night	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 night	det
29	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 midst	nmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 wanders	punct
31	when	when	SCONJ	_	34 wanders	mark
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 moon	det
33	moon	moon	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 wanders	nsubj
34	wanders	wander	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 heard	conj
35	dim	dim	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 wanders	xcomp
36	in	in	ADP	_	38 heavens	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 heavens	det
38	heavens	heaven	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 dim	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	23 heard	punct
40	"	"	PUNCT	_	23 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	hear in a quote	present · passive		Said	the midst of the night		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus
2	wander in a quote	present	the moon			dim property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	wail in a quote		the sprite for Said's babe and sprite's father				nom wail «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 8

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 5, sentence 8