Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 6, sentence 2
The rising moon gleams, weird and still o'er the dusky horizon; Through the hushed, somber forest she beams, and fitfully gloams on the meadows; And a dim, glimmering pathway she paves, at times, on the dark stretch of river.
Who acts: she, dim glimmering pathway · What happens: rise, hush, beam, glimmer, pave · To what, where: hushed somber forest, dark stretch
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 (she, dim glimmering pathway), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 gleams | det |
| 2 | rising | rise | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 gleams | amod |
| 3 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gleams | compound |
| 4 | gleams | gleam | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 weird | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 weird | punct |
| 6 | weird | weird | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 horizon | cc |
| 8 | still | still | ADV | _ | 12 horizon | advmod |
| 9 | o'er | o'er | ADP | _ | 12 horizon | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 horizon | det |
| 11 | dusky | dusky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 horizon | amod |
| 12 | horizon | horizon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 weird | conj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 forest | punct |
| 14 | Through | through | ADP | _ | 19 forest | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 forest | det |
| 16 | hushed | hush | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 forest | amod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 hushed | punct |
| 18 | somber | somber | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 forest | amod |
| 19 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 weird | conj |
| 20 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 beams | nsubj |
| 21 | beams | beam | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 forest | acl:relcl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 gloams | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 gloams | cc |
| 24 | fitfully | fitfully | ADV | _ | 25 gloams | advmod |
| 25 | gloams | gloam | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 weird | parataxis |
| 26 | on | on | ADP | _ | 28 meadows | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 meadows | det |
| 28 | meadows | meadow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 gloams | nmod |
| 29 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 37 paves | punct |
| 30 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 paves | cc |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 35 pathway | det |
| 32 | dim | dim | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 pathway | amod |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 glimmering | punct |
| 34 | glimmering | glimmer | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 35 pathway | amod |
| 35 | pathway | pathway | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 paves | nsubj |
| 36 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 paves | nsubj |
| 37 | paves | pave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 weird | conj |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 times | punct |
| 39 | at | at | ADP | _ | 40 times | case |
| 40 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 paves | obl:unmarked |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 stretch | punct |
| 42 | on | on | ADP | _ | 45 stretch | case |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 stretch | det |
| 44 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 45 stretch | amod |
| 45 | stretch | stretch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 paves | obl |
| 46 | of | of | ADP | _ | 47 river | case |
| 47 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 stretch | nmod |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 weird | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rise | gerund | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | hush | participle | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 3 | beam | present | she | the hushed somber forest not said here | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent forest=Theme | ||||
| 4 | glimmer | gerund | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 5 | pave | present | a dim glimmering pathway | the dark stretch of river | time | pathway nsubj | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |
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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