Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 5, sentence 89
Far-stretching away to the eyes, winding blue in the midst of the meadows, As a necklet of sapphires that lies unclaspt in the lap of a virgin, Here asleep in the lap of the plain lies the reed-bordered, beautiful river.
Who acts: necklet · What happens: stretch away, wind, lie, border · To what, where: eyes, midst, lap, bordered beautiful river
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 (necklet), 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 | Far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 stretching | advmod |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 Far | punct |
| 3 | stretching | stretch | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 41 lies | advcl |
| 4 | away | away | ADV | _ | 3 stretching | advmod |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 eyes | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 eyes | det |
| 7 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 stretching | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 winding | punct |
| 9 | winding | wind | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 stretching | conj |
| 10 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 winding | xcomp |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 midst | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 midst | det |
| 13 | midst | midst | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 winding | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 meadows | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 meadows | det |
| 16 | meadows | meadow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 midst | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 necklet | punct |
| 18 | As | as | ADP | _ | 20 necklet | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 necklet | det |
| 20 | necklet | necklet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stretching | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 sapphires | case |
| 22 | sapphires | sapphire | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 necklet | nmod |
| 23 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 lies | nsubj |
| 24 | lies | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 necklet | acl:relcl |
| 25 | unclaspt | unclaspt | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 lies | xcomp |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 lap | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 lap | det |
| 28 | lap | lap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 lies | obl |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 virgin | case |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 virgin | det |
| 31 | virgin | virgin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 lap | nmod |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 asleep | punct |
| 33 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 34 asleep | advmod |
| 34 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 stretching | conj |
| 35 | in | in | ADP | _ | 37 lap | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 lap | det |
| 37 | lap | lap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 asleep | obl |
| 38 | of | of | ADP | _ | 40 plain | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 plain | det |
| 40 | plain | plain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 lap | nmod |
| 41 | lies | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 48 river | det |
| 43 | reed | reed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 bordered | compound |
| 44 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 43 reed | punct |
| 45 | bordered | border | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 48 river | amod |
| 46 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 48 river | punct |
| 47 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 48 river | amod |
| 48 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 lies | obj |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 41 lies | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stretch away | gerund | the eyes | as a necklet of sapphires; away, far property | vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to eye=Location | ||||
| 2 | wind | gerund | the midst of the meadows | blue property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme in midst=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | lie | present | a necklet of sapphires | the lap of a virgin | unclaspt property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in lap=Location | |||
| 4 | lie | present | the bordered beautiful river | vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location river=Theme | |||||
| 5 | border | participle | reed compound | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: 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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