Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 6, sentence 54
From the meadows and wide-prairied plains, for their long southward journey preparing, In croaking flocks gather the cranes, and choose with loud clamor their leaders.
Who acts: long southward journey, croaking flocks, plains · What happens: prepare, gather, choose, journey · To what, where: cranes, meadows
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 (long southward journey, croaking flocks, plains), 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 meadows | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 meadows | det |
| 3 | meadows | meadow | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 plains | cc |
| 5 | wide | wide | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 prairied | amod |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 wide | punct |
| 7 | prairied | prairied | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 plains | amod |
| 8 | plains | plain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 meadows | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 journey | punct |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 journey | case |
| 11 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 journey | nmod:poss |
| 12 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 journey | amod |
| 13 | southward | southward | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 journey | amod |
| 14 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 meadows | conj |
| 15 | preparing | prepare | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 journey | acl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 gather | punct |
| 17 | In | in | ADP | _ | 19 flocks | case |
| 18 | croaking | croaking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 flocks | compound |
| 19 | flocks | flock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 gather | nsubj |
| 20 | gather | gather | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 preparing | parataxis |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 cranes | det |
| 22 | cranes | crane | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 gather | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 choose | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 choose | cc |
| 25 | choose | choose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 gather | conj |
| 26 | with | with | ADP | _ | 28 clamor | case |
| 27 | loud | loud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 clamor | amod |
| 28 | clamor | clamor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 choose | obl |
| 29 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 leaders | nmod:poss |
| 30 | leaders | leader | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 clamor | appos |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 meadows | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | prepare | gerund | plains's long southward journey not said here | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | gather | present | croaking flocks | the cranes | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crane=Theme | ||||
| 3 | choose | infinitive | croaking flocks not said here | with loud clamor | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | journey | plains = plain | nom journey «act transitive»: 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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