Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 6, sentence 3

The winds are asleep in the caves --in the heart of the far-away mountains; And here on the meadows and there, the lazy mists gather and hover; And the lights of the Fen-Spirits [72] flare and dance on the low-lying marshes, As still as the footsteps of death by the bed of the babe and its mother; And hushed are the pines, and beneath lie the weary limbed boatmen in slumber.

Who acts: winds, lazy mists, beneath, weary · What happens: be, gather, hover, lie, hush, limb · To what, where: caves, pines, boatmen, slumber, Fen Spirits

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 (winds, lazy mists, beneath, weary), 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	2 winds	det
2	winds	wind	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 asleep	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 asleep	cop
4	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 caves	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 caves	det
7	caves	cave	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 asleep	obl
8	--	--	PUNCT	_	11 heart	punct
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 heart	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 heart	det
11	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 caves	appos
12	of	of	ADP	_	17 mountains	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 mountains	det
14	far	far	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 mountains	amod
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	16 away	punct
16	away	away	ADV	_	14 far	advmod
17	mountains	mountain	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 heart	nmod
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 here	punct
19	And	and	CCONJ	_	20 here	cc
20	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 asleep	conj
21	on	on	ADP	_	23 meadows	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 meadows	det
23	meadows	meadow	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 here	obl
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 there	cc
25	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	20 here	conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 gather	punct
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 mists	det
28	lazy	lazy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 mists	amod
29	mists	mist	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 gather	nsubj
30	gather	gather	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 asleep	parataxis
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 hover	cc
32	hover	hover	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 gather	conj
33	;	;	PUNCT	_	4 asleep	punct
34	And	and	CCONJ	_	36 lights	cc
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 lights	det
36	lights	light	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 ;	conj
37	of	of	ADP	_	41 Spirits	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 Spirits	det
39	Fen	Fen	PROPN	Number=Sing	41 Spirits	compound
40	-	-	PUNCT	_	39 Fen	punct
41	Spirits	spirit	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 lights	nmod
42	[	[	PUNCT	_	45 flare	punct
43	72	72	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	45 flare	nummod
44	]	]	PUNCT	_	43 72	punct
45	flare	flare	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 Spirits	appos
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 dance	cc
47	dance	dance	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 flare	conj
48	on	on	ADP	_	53 marshes	case
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	53 marshes	det
50	low	low	ADJ	Degree=Pos	52 lying	compound
51	-	-	PUNCT	_	50 low	punct
52	lying	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	53 marshes	amod
53	marshes	marsh	NOUN	Number=Plur	45 flare	nmod
54	,	,	PUNCT	_	59 footsteps	punct
55	As	as	ADV	_	56 still	advmod
56	still	still	ADV	_	59 footsteps	advmod
57	as	as	ADP	_	59 footsteps	case
58	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	59 footsteps	det
59	footsteps	footstep	NOUN	Number=Plur	45 flare	conj
60	of	of	ADP	_	61 death	case
61	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	59 footsteps	nmod
62	by	by	ADP	_	64 bed	case
63	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	64 bed	det
64	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	59 footsteps	nmod
65	of	of	ADP	_	67 babe	case
66	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	67 babe	det
67	babe	babe	NOUN	Number=Sing	64 bed	nmod
68	and	and	CCONJ	_	70 mother	cc
69	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	70 mother	nmod:poss
70	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	67 babe	conj
71	;	;	PUNCT	_	73 hushed	punct
72	And	and	CCONJ	_	73 hushed	cc
73	hushed	hush	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 asleep	parataxis
74	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	76 pines	cop
75	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	76 pines	det
76	pines	pine	NOUN	Number=Plur	73 hushed	obj
77	,	,	PUNCT	_	80 lie	punct
78	and	and	CCONJ	_	80 lie	cc
79	beneath	beneath	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	80 lie	nsubj
80	lie	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	73 hushed	conj
81	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	82 weary	det
82	weary	weary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	83 limbed	nsubj
83	limbed	limb	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	80 lie	ccomp
84	boatmen	boatman	NOUN	Number=Plur	83 limbed	obj
85	in	in	ADP	_	86 slumber	case
86	slumber	slumber	NOUN	Number=Sing	83 limbed	obl
87	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 asleep	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	the winds		the caves	the lights of the Fen Spirits conj; asleep property	tree rules
2	gather	present	the lazy mists				vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	hover	present	the lazy mists not said here				vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	lie	gerund					vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	hush	past					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
6	is a	present		the pines			tree rules
7	lie	present	beneath				tree rules
8	limb	past	the weary	boatmen	slumber		tree rules
9	light			the Fen Spirits			nom light «phenomenon 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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🌲 Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 6, sentence 3

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Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 6, sentence 3