Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 7, sentence 103

The moon waxed and waned, but the star of her hope never waned to the setting; Through her tears she beheld it afar, like a torch on the eastern horizon. "

Who acts: moon, star · What happens: wax, wane, not wane, behold, hope · To what, where: setting, tears

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 (moon, star), 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 moon	det
2	moon	moon	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 waxed	nsubj
3	waxed	wax	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 waned	cc
5	waned	wane	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 waxed	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 waned	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 waned	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 star	det
9	star	star	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 waned	nsubj
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 hope	case
11	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 hope	nmod:poss
12	hope	hope	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 star	nmod
13	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	14 waned	advmod
14	waned	wane	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 waxed	conj
15	to	to	ADP	_	17 setting	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 setting	det
17	setting	setting	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 waned	obl
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 beheld	punct
19	Through	through	ADP	_	21 tears	case
20	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 tears	nmod:poss
21	tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 beheld	obl
22	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 beheld	nsubj
23	beheld	behold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 waxed	conj
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 beheld	obj
25	afar	afar	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 beheld	xcomp
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 torch	punct
27	like	like	ADP	_	29 torch	case
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 torch	det
29	torch	torch	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 beheld	obl
30	on	on	ADP	_	33 horizon	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 horizon	det
32	eastern	eastern	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 horizon	amod
33	horizon	horizon	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 torch	nmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 waxed	punct
35	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 waxed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	wax	past	the moon				vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	wane	past	the moon not said here				vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	not wane	past	the star of Moon's hope			to the setting	vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
4	behold	past	Moon	setting	Moon's tears	like a torch on the eastern horizon; afar property	vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
5	hope		Moon				nom hope «feeling intransitive»: poss=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 103

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 7, sentence 103