Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 6, sentence 47

[b] Now the waves drop their myriad hands, and streams the white hair of the surges; DuLuth at the steady helm stands, and he hums as he bounds o'er the billows:

Who acts: waves, streams, DuLuth · What happens: drop, stand, hum, bound · To what, where: myriad hands

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 (waves, streams, DuLuth), 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	[	[	PUNCT	_	2 b	punct
2	b	b	NUM	_	7 drop	discourse
3	]	]	PUNCT	_	2 b	punct
4	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 drop	advmod
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 waves	det
6	waves	wave	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 drop	nsubj
7	drop	drop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 hands	nmod:poss
9	myriad	myriad	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 hands	compound
10	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 drop	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 stands	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 stands	cc
13	streams	stream	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 stands	nsubj
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 hair	det
15	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 hair	amod
16	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 stands	nsubj
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 surges	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 surges	det
19	surges	surge	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 hair	nmod
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 DuLuth	punct
21	DuLuth	DuLuth	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 stands	nsubj
22	at	at	ADP	_	25 helm	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 helm	det
24	steady	steady	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 helm	amod
25	helm	helm	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 DuLuth	nmod
26	stands	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 drop	conj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 hums	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 hums	cc
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 hums	nsubj
30	hums	hum	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 drop	advcl
31	as	as	SCONJ	_	33 bounds	mark
32	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 bounds	nsubj
33	bounds	bound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 hums	advcl
34	o'er	o'er	ADP	_	36 billows	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 billows	det
36	billows	billow	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 bounds	obl
37	:	:	PUNCT	_	7 drop	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	drop	present	the waves	waves's myriad hands	now	b discourse	vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme
2	stand	present	streams			the white hair of the surges nsubj; DuLuth at the steady helm nsubj	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	hum	present	DuLuth				vn bulge-47.5.3 «NP V»: agent=Location
4	bound	present	DuLuth			o'er the billows	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: 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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🌲 Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 6, sentence 47

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 6, sentence 47