Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 6, sentence 53

All sere are the prairies and brown, in the glimmer and haze of the Autumn; From the far northern marshes flock down, by thousands, the geese and the mallards.

Who acts: sere, far northern marshes, Autumn · What happens: be, flock down, haze · To what, where: prairies

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 (sere, far northern marshes, Autumn), 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	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	2 sere	det
2	sere	sere	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 prairies	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 prairies	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 prairies	det
5	prairies	prairie	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 brown	cc
7	brown	brown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 prairies	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 glimmer	punct
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 glimmer	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 glimmer	det
11	glimmer	glimmer	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 prairies	conj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 haze	cc
13	haze	haze	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 glimmer	conj
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 Autumn	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Autumn	det
16	Autumn	Autumn	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 haze	nmod
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 flock	punct
18	From	from	ADP	_	22 marshes	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 marshes	det
20	far	far	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 marshes	amod
21	northern	northern	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 marshes	amod
22	marshes	marsh	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 flock	nsubj
23	flock	flock	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 prairies	conj
24	down	down	ADP	_	23 flock	compound:prt
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 thousands	punct
26	by	by	ADP	_	27 thousands	case
27	thousands	thousand	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 flock	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 geese	punct
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 geese	det
30	geese	goose	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 thousands	nmod
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 mallards	cc
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 mallards	det
33	mallards	mallard	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 thousands	conj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 prairies	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	all sere	the prairies and the glimmer and haze of the Autumn	the glimmer and haze of the Autumn conj	tree rules
2	be		all sere not said here			tree rules
3	flock down	present	the far northern marshes		by thousands the geese and the mallards	vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	haze		the Autumn			nom haze «phenomenon intransitive»: of=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 53

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 6, sentence 53