Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 5, sentence 95
In the fitful light darkle and gleam the swarthy-hued faces around them.
Who acts: you · What happens: darkle, gleam, hue · To what, where: fitful light, hued faces
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 (you), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 light | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 light | det |
| 3 | fitful | fitful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 light | amod |
| 4 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 darkle | obl |
| 5 | darkle | darkle | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 gleam | cc |
| 7 | gleam | gleam | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 5 darkle | conj |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 faces | det |
| 9 | swarthy | swarthy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 hued | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 swarthy | punct |
| 11 | hued | hue | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 faces | amod |
| 12 | faces | face | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 gleam | obj |
| 13 | around | around | ADP | _ | 14 them | case |
| 14 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 gleam | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 darkle | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | darkle | imperative | you not said here | the fitful light | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | gleam | infinitive | you not said here | the hued faces | around face | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent face=Theme | |||
| 3 | hue | participle | tree rules |
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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