Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 6, sentence 62

Once more by the dark-rolling river Sits the Chief in the warm, dreamy haze of the beautiful Summer in Autumn; And the faithful dog lovingly lays his head at the feet of his master.

Who acts: faithful dog, beautiful Summer · What happens: roll, sit, lay, haze · To what, where: Chief, warm dreamy haze, head, feet

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 (faithful dog, beautiful Summer), 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	Once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	9 Sits	advmod
2	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	9 Sits	advmod
3	by	by	ADP	_	8 river	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 river	det
5	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 rolling	amod
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 dark	punct
7	rolling	roll	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 river	amod
8	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 Sits	obl
9	Sits	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Chief	det
11	Chief	Chief	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Sits	obj
12	in	in	ADP	_	17 haze	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 haze	det
14	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 haze	amod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 warm	punct
16	dreamy	dreamy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 haze	amod
17	haze	haze	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 Sits	obl
18	of	of	ADP	_	21 Summer	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 Summer	det
20	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 Summer	amod
21	Summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 haze	nmod
22	in	in	ADP	_	23 Autumn	case
23	Autumn	Autumn	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 Summer	nmod
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 lays	punct
25	And	and	CCONJ	_	30 lays	cc
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 dog	det
27	faithful	faithful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 dog	amod
28	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 lays	nsubj
29	lovingly	lovingly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 dog	amod
30	lays	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 Sits	conj
31	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 head	nmod:poss
32	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 lays	obj
33	at	at	ADP	_	35 feet	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 feet	det
35	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 lays	obl
36	of	of	ADP	_	38 master	case
37	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 master	nmod:poss
38	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 feet	nmod
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 Sits	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	roll	gerund					vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	sit	present		the Chief	the warm dreamy haze of the beautiful Summer in Autumn	by the rolling river; once property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent chief=Theme by river=Location
3	lay	present	the faithful dog	dog's head	the feet of dog's master		vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent head=Theme at foot=Destination
4	haze		the beautiful Summer in 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 62

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 6, sentence 62