Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 6, sentence 4

Walk softly,--walk softly, O Moon, through the gray, broken clouds in thy pathway, For the earth lies asleep, and the boon of repose is bestowed on the weary.

Who acts: you, earth · What happens: walk, break, lie, bestow · To what, where: gray, O Moon, boon, weary

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 (you, earth), 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	Walk	walk	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	softly	softly	ADV	_	1 Walk	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 walk	punct
4	--	--	PUNCT	_	5 walk	punct
5	walk	walk	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Walk	conj
6	softly	softly	ADV	_	5 walk	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 Moon	punct
8	O	O	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Moon	compound
9	Moon	Moon	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 walk	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 gray	punct
11	through	through	ADP	_	13 gray	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 gray	det
13	gray	gray	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Walk	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 clouds	punct
15	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 clouds	amod
16	clouds	cloud	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 gray	appos
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 pathway	case
18	thy	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	19 pathway	nmod:poss
19	pathway	pathway	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 clouds	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 lies	punct
21	For	for	SCONJ	_	24 lies	mark
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 earth	det
23	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 lies	nsubj
24	lies	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Walk	advcl
25	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 lies	xcomp
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 bestowed	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 bestowed	cc
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 boon	det
29	boon	boon	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 bestowed	nsubj:pass
30	of	of	ADP	_	31 repose	case
31	repose	repose	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 boon	nmod
32	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 bestowed	aux:pass
33	bestowed	bestow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 lies	advcl
34	on	on	ADP	_	36 weary	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 weary	det
36	weary	weary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 bestowed	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Walk	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	walk	imperative	you not said here		the gray	softly property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through gray=Trajectory
2	walk	infinitive	you not said here	O Moon		softly property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	break	participle					vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
4	lie	present	the earth			asleep property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	bestow	present · passive		the boon of repose	the weary		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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🌲 Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 6, sentence 4

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 6, sentence 4