Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 6, sentence 52
From the heads of the maples the west-wind Plucks the red-and-gold plumage and grieves on the meads for the rose and the lily; Their brown leaves the moaning oaks strew, and the breezes that roam on the prairies, Low-whistling and wanton pursue the down of the silk weed and thistle.
Who acts: west wind, brown, moaning oaks, breezes · What happens: pluck, grieve, leave, strew, roam, pursue · To what, where: red gold plumage, heads, meads, prairies, down
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 (west wind, brown, moaning oaks, breezes), 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 | From | from | ADP | _ | 3 heads | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 heads | det |
| 3 | heads | head | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 Plucks | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 maples | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 maples | det |
| 6 | maples | maple | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 heads | nmod |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 wind | det |
| 8 | west | west | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 wind | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 west | punct |
| 10 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 Plucks | nsubj |
| 11 | Plucks | pluck | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 plumage | det |
| 13 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 plumage | amod |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 plumage | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 plumage | cc |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 and | punct |
| 17 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 plumage | compound |
| 18 | plumage | plumage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 Plucks | obj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 grieves | cc |
| 20 | grieves | grieve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 Plucks | conj |
| 21 | on | on | ADP | _ | 23 meads | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 meads | det |
| 23 | meads | mead | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 grieves | obl |
| 24 | for | for | ADP | _ | 26 rose | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 rose | det |
| 26 | rose | rose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 meads | nmod |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 lily | cc |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 lily | det |
| 29 | lily | lily | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 rose | conj |
| 30 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 33 leaves | punct |
| 31 | Their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 brown | nmod:poss |
| 32 | brown | brown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 leaves | nsubj |
| 33 | leaves | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 Plucks | parataxis |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 oaks | det |
| 35 | moaning | moaning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 oaks | compound |
| 36 | oaks | oak | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 strew | nsubj |
| 37 | strew | strew | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 leaves | parataxis |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 53 pursue | punct |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 53 pursue | cc |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 breezes | det |
| 41 | breezes | breeze | NOUN | Number=Plur | 53 pursue | nsubj |
| 42 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 43 roam | nsubj |
| 43 | roam | roam | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 41 breezes | acl:relcl |
| 44 | on | on | ADP | _ | 46 prairies | case |
| 45 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 prairies | det |
| 46 | prairies | prairie | NOUN | Number=Plur | 43 roam | obl |
| 47 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 50 whistling | punct |
| 48 | Low | low | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 50 whistling | amod |
| 49 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 48 Low | punct |
| 50 | whistling | whistling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 prairies | appos |
| 51 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 52 wanton | cc |
| 52 | wanton | wanton | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 whistling | conj |
| 53 | pursue | pursue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 leaves | conj |
| 54 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 55 down | det |
| 55 | down | down | NOUN | Number=Sing | 53 pursue | obj |
| 56 | of | of | ADP | _ | 59 weed | case |
| 57 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 59 weed | det |
| 58 | silk | silk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 59 weed | compound |
| 59 | weed | weed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 55 down | nmod |
| 60 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 61 thistle | cc |
| 61 | thistle | thistle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 59 weed | conj |
| 62 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 Plucks | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pluck | present | the west wind | the red gold plumage | the heads of the maples | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent plumage=Theme from head=Source | |||
| 2 | grieve | present | the west wind not said here | the meads for the rose and the lily | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | leave | present | winds's brown | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | strew | present | the moaning oaks | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | roam | present | the breezes | the prairies | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on prairie=Trajectory | ||||
| 6 | pursue | present | the breezes | the down of the silk weed and thistle | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent down=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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