Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 6, sentence 12
Not a breath stirs the leaves of the awe-stricken forest; The hushed air is heavy with death; like the footsteps of death are the moments. "
Who acts: breath, hushed air, footsteps · What happens: stir, hush, be · To what, where: leaves, moments
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 (breath, hushed air, footsteps), 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 | Not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 3 breath | advmod |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 breath | det |
| 3 | breath | breath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stirs | nsubj |
| 4 | stirs | stir | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 leaves | det |
| 6 | leaves | leaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 stirs | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 forest | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 forest | det |
| 9 | awe | awe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 stricken | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 awe | punct |
| 11 | stricken | stricken | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 forest | amod |
| 12 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 leaves | nmod |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 heavy | punct |
| 14 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 air | det |
| 15 | hushed | hush | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 air | amod |
| 16 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 heavy | nsubj |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 heavy | cop |
| 18 | heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 stirs | advcl |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 death | case |
| 20 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 heavy | obl |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 footsteps | punct |
| 22 | like | like | ADP | _ | 24 footsteps | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 footsteps | det |
| 24 | footsteps | footstep | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 moments | nsubj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 death | case |
| 26 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 footsteps | nmod |
| 27 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 moments | cop |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 moments | det |
| 29 | moments | moment | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 stirs | parataxis |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 stirs | punct |
| 31 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 stirs | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stir | present | a breath | the leaves of the stricken forest | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus leaf=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | hush | participle | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 3 | is | present | the hushed air | with death; heavy property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is a | present | the footsteps of death | the moments | 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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