Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 6, sentence 55
The breath of the evening is cold, and lurid along the horizon The flames of the prairies are rolled, on the somber skies flashing their torches.
Who acts: breath, somber skies, prairies · What happens: be, roll, flash, flame · To what, where: flames, somber skies, torches
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 (breath, somber skies, prairies), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 breath | det |
| 2 | breath | breath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 cold | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 evening | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 evening | det |
| 5 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 breath | nmod |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 cold | cop |
| 7 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 lurid | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 lurid | cc |
| 10 | lurid | lurid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 cold | conj |
| 11 | along | along | ADP | _ | 13 horizon | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 horizon | det |
| 13 | horizon | horizon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 rolled | obl |
| 14 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 flames | det |
| 15 | flames | flame | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 rolled | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 prairies | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 prairies | det |
| 18 | prairies | prairie | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 flames | nmod |
| 19 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 rolled | aux:pass |
| 20 | rolled | roll | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 lurid | parataxis |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 skies | punct |
| 22 | on | on | ADP | _ | 25 skies | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 skies | det |
| 24 | somber | somber | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 skies | amod |
| 25 | skies | sky | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 rolled | obl |
| 26 | flashing | flash | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 25 skies | acl |
| 27 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 torches | nmod:poss |
| 28 | torches | torch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 flashing | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 cold | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the breath of the evening | cold property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | the breath of the evening not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | roll | present · passive | the flames of the prairies | the somber skies | along the horizon | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.source PP.destination PP.trajectory»: subject=Theme along horizon=Initial_Location on sky=Trajectory | |||
| 4 | flash | gerund | the somber skies not said here | prairies's torches | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent torch=Theme | ||||
| 5 | flame | the prairies | nom flame «process 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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