Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 5, sentence 82

Now a light, rustling wind from the South shakes his wings o'er the wide, wimpling waters; Up the dark winding river DuLuth follows fast in the wake of Tamdóka.

Who acts: light, DuLuth · What happens: rustle, shake, wimple, follow · To what, where: wind, South, wings, wake

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 (light, DuLuth), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 light	advmod
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 light	det
3	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 shakes	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 rustling	punct
5	rustling	rustle	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 light	acl
6	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 rustling	obj
7	from	from	ADP	_	9 South	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 South	det
9	South	South	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 rustling	obl
10	shakes	shake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 wings	nmod:poss
12	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 shakes	obj
13	o'er	o'er	ADP	_	18 waters	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 waters	det
15	wide	wide	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 waters	amod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 wimpling	punct
17	wimpling	wimple	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	18 waters	amod
18	waters	water	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 shakes	obl
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 follows	punct
20	Up	up	ADP	_	24 river	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 river	det
22	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 river	amod
23	winding	winding	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 river	compound
24	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 follows	obl
25	DuLuth	DuLuth	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 follows	nsubj
26	follows	follow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 shakes	conj
27	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	26 follows	advmod
28	in	in	ADP	_	30 wake	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 wake	det
30	wake	wake	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 follows	obl
31	of	of	ADP	_	32 Tamdóka	case
32	Tamdóka	Tamdóka	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 wake	nmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 shakes	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	rustle	gerund	a light not said here	wind	the South		vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent wind=Theme from south=Source
2	shake	present	a light	light's wings		o'er the wide wimpling waters	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent wing=Patient
3	wimple	gerund					tree rules
4	follow	present	DuLuth		the wake of Tamdóka	up the dark winding river; fast property	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in wake=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 82

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 5, sentence 82