Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 7, sentence 102

On the dark waters glimmered the moon, but she saw not the boat of the Frenchman; On the somber night bugled the loon, but she heard not the song of the boatmen.

Who acts: Winona, boatmen · What happens: glimmer, not see, bugle, not hear, sing · To what, where: moon, dark waters, boat, loon, song

This is a sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Feast of the Virgins., part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Winona, boatmen), 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	On	on	ADP	_	4 waters	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 waters	det
3	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 waters	amod
4	waters	water	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 glimmered	obl
5	glimmered	glimmer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 moon	det
7	moon	moon	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 glimmered	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 saw	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 saw	cc
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 saw	nsubj
11	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 glimmered	conj
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 saw	advmod
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 boat	det
14	boat	boat	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 saw	obj
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 Frenchman	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 Frenchman	det
17	Frenchman	frenchman	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 boat	nmod
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 bugled	punct
19	On	on	ADP	_	22 night	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 night	det
21	somber	somber	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 night	amod
22	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 bugled	obl
23	bugled	bugle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 glimmered	parataxis
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 loon	det
25	loon	loon	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 bugled	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 heard	punct
27	but	but	CCONJ	_	29 heard	cc
28	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 heard	nsubj
29	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 bugled	conj
30	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	29 heard	advmod
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 song	det
32	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 heard	obj
33	of	of	ADP	_	35 boatmen	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 boatmen	det
35	boatmen	boatman	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 song	nmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 glimmered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	glimmer	past		the moon	the dark waters		vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent moon=Theme
2	not see	past	Winona	the boat of the Frenchman			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer boat=Stimulus
3	bugle	past		the loon		night	tree rules
4	not hear	past	Winona	the song of the boatmen			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer song=Stimulus
5	sing		the boatmen				nom song «communication 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 7, sentence 102

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 7, sentence 102