Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 6, sentence 42
Out-stretching her long, iron arms o'er an empire of Saxons and Normans.
What happens: stretch · To what, where: long iron arms
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 | Out | out | ADV | _ | 3 stretching | advmod |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 Out | punct |
| 3 | stretching | stretch | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 arms | nmod:poss |
| 5 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 arms | amod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 long | punct |
| 7 | iron | iron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 arms | compound |
| 8 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 stretching | obj |
| 9 | o'er | o'er | ADP | _ | 11 empire | case |
| 10 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 empire | det |
| 11 | empire | empire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stretching | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 Saxons | case |
| 13 | Saxons | Saxon | PROPN | Number=Plur | 11 empire | nmod |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 Normans | cc |
| 15 | Normans | Norman | PROPN | Number=Plur | 13 Saxons | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 stretching | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stretch | gerund | Europe's long iron arms | o'er a empire of Saxons and Normans; out property | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent arm=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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