Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 6, sentence 68
But dim are the days that are gone, and darkly around me they wander, Like the pale, misty face of the moon when she walks through the storm of the winter; And sadly they speak in my ear.
Who acts: days, psin, Moon, winter · What happens: be, wander, walk, speak, storm · To what, where: storm, ear · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (days, psin, Moon, winter), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 are | cc |
| 2 | dim | dim | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 are | expl |
| 3 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 days | det |
| 5 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 gone | nsubj |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 gone | nsubj |
| 7 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 gone | cop |
| 8 | gone | gone | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 are | ccomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 darkly | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 darkly | cc |
| 11 | darkly | darkly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 gone | conj |
| 12 | around | around | ADP | _ | 13 me | case |
| 13 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 darkly | obl |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 wander | nsubj |
| 15 | wander | wander | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 gone | parataxis |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 face | punct |
| 17 | Like | like | ADP | _ | 22 face | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 face | det |
| 19 | pale | pale | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 face | amod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 pale | punct |
| 21 | misty | misty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 face | amod |
| 22 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 wander | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 moon | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 moon | det |
| 25 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 face | nmod |
| 26 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 28 walks | mark |
| 27 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 walks | nsubj |
| 28 | walks | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 wander | advcl |
| 29 | through | through | ADP | _ | 31 storm | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 storm | det |
| 31 | storm | storm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 walks | obl |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 winter | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 winter | det |
| 34 | winter | winter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 storm | nmod |
| 35 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 39 speak | punct |
| 36 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 speak | cc |
| 37 | sadly | sadly | ADV | _ | 39 speak | advmod |
| 38 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 speak | nsubj |
| 39 | speak | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 wander | conj |
| 40 | in | in | ADP | _ | 42 ear | case |
| 41 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 42 ear | nmod:poss |
| 42 | ear | ear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 speak | obl |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 are | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | present | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | is | present | the days | that nsubj; gone property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | be | the days not said here | around me | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | wander | present | psin | like the pale misty face of the moon | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | walk | present | Moon | the storm of the winter | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through storm=Trajectory | ||||
| 6 | speak speech: other | present | psin | my ear | sadly property | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 7 | storm | the winter | nom storm «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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