Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 5, sentence 97
Like the eyes of the wolves are the eyes of the watchful and silent Dakotas; Like the face of the moon in the skies, when the clouds chase each other across it.
Who acts: eyes, clouds · What happens: be, chase · To what, where: eyes, each, moon
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 (eyes, clouds), 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 | Like | like | ADP | _ | 3 eyes | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 eyes | det |
| 3 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 eyes | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 wolves | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 wolves | det |
| 6 | wolves | wolf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 eyes | nmod |
| 7 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 eyes | cop |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 eyes | det |
| 9 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 Dakotas | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Dakotas | det |
| 12 | watchful | watchful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 Dakotas | amod |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 silent | cc |
| 14 | silent | silent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 watchful | conj |
| 15 | Dakotas | dakota | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 eyes | nmod |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 face | punct |
| 17 | Like | like | ADP | _ | 19 face | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 face | det |
| 19 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 eyes | conj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 moon | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 moon | det |
| 22 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 face | nmod |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 skies | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 skies | det |
| 25 | skies | sky | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 moon | nmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 chase | punct |
| 27 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 30 chase | mark |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 clouds | det |
| 29 | clouds | cloud | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 chase | nsubj |
| 30 | chase | chase | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 face | conj |
| 31 | each | each | DET | ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp | 30 chase | obj |
| 32 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 each | fixed |
| 33 | across | across | ADP | _ | 34 it | case |
| 34 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 chase | obl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 eyes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the eyes of the wolves | the eyes and the face of the moon in the skies | of the watchful Dakotas; the face of the moon in the skies conj | tree rules | |||
| 2 | chase | present | the clouds | each | moon | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent each=Theme across it=Trajectory |
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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