Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 6, sentence 14
From the pine-tops the screech owl Screams and flaps his wide wings in affright, and plunges away through the shadows; And swift on the wings of the night flee the dim, phantom forms of the spirit.
What happens: flap, plunge away, swift, flee, form · To what, where: wide wings, shadows, wings, dim phantom forms, pine tops, spirit
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: 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 | From | from | ADP | _ | 5 tops | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 tops | det |
| 3 | pine | pine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 tops | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 pine | punct |
| 5 | tops | top | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 owl | det |
| 7 | screech | screech | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 owl | compound |
| 8 | owl | owl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 Screams | nsubj |
| 9 | Screams | Scream | PROPN | Number=Plur | 5 tops | appos |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 flaps | cc |
| 11 | flaps | flap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 Screams | conj |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 wings | nmod:poss |
| 13 | wide | wide | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 wings | amod |
| 14 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 flaps | obj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 affright | case |
| 16 | affright | affright | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 flaps | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 plunges | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 plunges | cc |
| 19 | plunges | plunge | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 flaps | conj |
| 20 | away | away | ADV | _ | 19 plunges | advmod |
| 21 | through | through | ADP | _ | 23 shadows | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 shadows | det |
| 23 | shadows | shadow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 plunges | obl |
| 24 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 swift | punct |
| 25 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 swift | cc |
| 26 | swift | swift | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 5 tops | parataxis |
| 27 | on | on | ADP | _ | 29 wings | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 wings | det |
| 29 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 swift | obl |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 night | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 night | det |
| 32 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 wings | nmod |
| 33 | flee | flee | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 26 swift | conj |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 forms | det |
| 35 | dim | dim | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 forms | amod |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 dim | punct |
| 37 | phantom | phantom | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 forms | amod |
| 38 | forms | form | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 flee | obj |
| 39 | of | of | ADP | _ | 41 spirit | case |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 spirit | det |
| 41 | spirit | spirit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 forms | nmod |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 tops | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | flap | present | owl's wide wings | in affright | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent wing=Patient in affright=Topic | ||||
| 2 | plunge away | present | the shadows | away property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme through shadow=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | swift | infinitive | the wings of the night | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | flee | infinitive | the dim phantom forms of the spirit | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme form=Initial_Location | |||||
| 6 | form | the spirit | nom form «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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