Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 6, sentence 5

Toiling hands have forgotten their care; e'en the brooks have forgotten to murmur; But hark!--there's a sound on the air! --'tis the light-rustling robes of the Spirits.

Who acts: Toiling hands, brooks, sound, hands · What happens: toil, forget, not murmur, be, rustle, care · To what, where: care, air

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 (Toiling hands, brooks, sound, hands), 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	Toiling	toil	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 hands	amod
2	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 forgotten	nsubj
3	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 forgotten	aux
4	forgotten	forget	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 care	nmod:poss
6	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 forgotten	obj
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	8 e'en	punct
8	e'en	e'en	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 forgotten	obl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 brooks	det
10	brooks	brook	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 forgotten	nsubj
11	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 forgotten	aux
12	forgotten	forget	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 e'en	acl:relcl
13	to	to	PART	_	14 murmur	mark
14	murmur	murmur	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 forgotten	xcomp
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 hark	punct
16	But	but	CCONJ	_	17 hark	cc
17	hark	hark	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 forgotten	parataxis
18	!	!	PUNCT	_	17 hark	punct
19	--	--	PUNCT	_	21 's	punct
20	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	21 's	expl
21	's	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 forgotten	parataxis
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 sound	det
23	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 's	nsubj
24	on	on	ADP	_	26 air	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 air	det
26	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 's	obl
27	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 forgotten	punct
28	--	--	PUNCT	_	35 robes	punct
29	'	'	PUNCT	_	35 robes	punct
30	tis	tis	ADP	_	35 robes	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 robes	det
32	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 rustling	compound
33	-	-	PUNCT	_	32 light	punct
34	rustling	rustle	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	35 robes	amod
35	robes	robe	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 forgotten	obl
36	of	of	ADP	_	38 Spirits	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 Spirits	det
38	Spirits	spirit	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 robes	nmod
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 forgotten	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	toil	gerund					vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	forget	present · perfect	Toiling hands	hands's care		tis the rustling robes of the Spirits; e'en obl; hark parataxis	tree rules
3	forget	present · perfect	the brooks				tree rules
4	not murmur speech: other	to-infinitive	the brooks not said here				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	be	present	a sound		the air; there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on air=Location
6	rustle	gerund				light compound	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	care		hands = hand				nom care «act intransitive»: poss=agent

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 5

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 6, sentence 5