Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 6, sentence 10
Nay, nearer and nearer they glide, like ghosts on the fields of their battles, Till close on the sleepers, they bide but the signal of death from Tamdóka.
Who acts: Frenchmen · What happens: glide, bide, battle, signal · To what, where: Tamdóka, death
This is a sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Feast of the Virgins., part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Frenchmen), 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 | Nay | nay | INTJ | _ | 3 nearer | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 nearer | punct |
| 3 | nearer | near | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 nearer | cc |
| 5 | nearer | near | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 7 glide | advmod |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 glide | nsubj |
| 7 | glide | glide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 nearer | advcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 ghosts | punct |
| 9 | like | like | ADP | _ | 10 ghosts | case |
| 10 | ghosts | ghost | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 glide | obl |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 fields | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 fields | det |
| 13 | fields | field | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 ghosts | nmod |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 battles | case |
| 15 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 battles | nmod:poss |
| 16 | battles | battle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 fields | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 close | punct |
| 18 | Till | till | ADP | _ | 19 close | case |
| 19 | close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 glide | conj |
| 20 | on | on | ADP | _ | 22 sleepers | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 sleepers | det |
| 22 | sleepers | sleeper | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 close | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 bide | punct |
| 24 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 bide | nsubj |
| 25 | bide | bide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 glide | conj |
| 26 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 28 signal | cc |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 signal | det |
| 28 | signal | signal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 bide | conj |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 death | case |
| 30 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 signal | nmod |
| 31 | from | from | ADP | _ | 32 Tamdóka | case |
| 32 | Tamdóka | Tamdóka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 bide | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 nearer | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | glide | present | Frenchmen = frenchman | like ghosts on the fields of Frenchmen's battles; near property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | bide | present | Frenchmen = frenchman | Tamdóka | the signal of death conj | tree rules | |||
| 4 | battle | Frenchmen = frenchman | nom battle «act transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 5 | signal | death | nom signal «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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