Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 6, sentence 6
Like the breath of the night in the leaves, or the murmur of reeds on the river, In the cool of the mid-summer eves, when the blaze of the day has descended.
Who acts: day · What happens: descend, murmur, blaze · To what, where: blaze, reeds
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 (day), 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 | Like | like | ADP | _ | 3 breath | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 breath | det |
| 3 | breath | breath | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 night | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 night | det |
| 6 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 breath | nmod |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 leaves | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 leaves | det |
| 9 | leaves | leaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 night | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 murmur | punct |
| 11 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 13 murmur | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 murmur | det |
| 13 | murmur | murmur | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 breath | conj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 reeds | case |
| 15 | reeds | reed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 murmur | nmod |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 river | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 river | det |
| 18 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 reeds | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 cool | punct |
| 20 | In | in | ADP | _ | 22 cool | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 cool | det |
| 22 | cool | cool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 river | conj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 eves | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 eves | det |
| 25 | mid-summer | mid-summer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 eves | compound |
| 26 | eves | eve | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 cool | nmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 descended | punct |
| 28 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 35 descended | mark |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 blaze | det |
| 30 | blaze | blaze | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 descended | nsubj:pass |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 day | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 day | det |
| 33 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 blaze | nmod |
| 34 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 35 descended | aux |
| 35 | descended | descend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 river | acl:relcl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 breath | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | descend | present · perfect · passive | the blaze of the day | vn meander-47.7-1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 3 | murmur | reeds on the river and the cool of the mid-summer eves | nom murmur «event transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 4 | blaze | the day | nom blaze «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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