Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 5, sentence 80
Blow, breezes,--blow softly and sing in the dark, flowing hair of the maiden; But never again shall you bring the voice that she loves to Winona.
Who acts: Blow, you, voice · What happens: blow, sing, flow, bring, love · To what, where: dark, hair, voice, Winona
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 (Blow, you, voice), 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 | Blow | blow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 blow | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 breezes | punct |
| 3 | breezes | breeze | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Blow | conj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 blow | punct |
| 5 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 6 blow | punct |
| 6 | blow | blow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | softly | softly | ADV | _ | 6 blow | advmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 sing | cc |
| 9 | sing | sing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 blow | conj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 dark | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 dark | det |
| 12 | dark | dark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sing | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 flowing | punct |
| 14 | flowing | flow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 sing | advcl |
| 15 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 flowing | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 maiden | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 maiden | det |
| 18 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 hair | nmod |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 bring | punct |
| 20 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 25 bring | cc |
| 21 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 22 again | advmod |
| 22 | again | again | ADV | _ | 25 bring | advmod |
| 23 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 bring | aux |
| 24 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 25 bring | nsubj |
| 25 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 blow | conj |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 voice | det |
| 27 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 bring | obj |
| 28 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 30 loves | mark |
| 29 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 loves | nsubj |
| 30 | loves | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 bring | advcl |
| 31 | to | to | ADP | _ | 32 Winona | case |
| 32 | Winona | Winona | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 loves | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 blow | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | blow | infinitive | Blow and breezes | softly property | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | sing speech: express | present | Blow and breezes not said here | the dark | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in dark=Location | ||||
| 3 | flow | gerund | Blow and breezes not said here | hair of the maiden | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location hair=Theme | ||||
| 4 | bring | shall | you | the voice | again; never | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent voice=Theme | |||
| 5 | love | present | voice | Winona | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: 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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