Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 7, sentence 110

No tidings the rising sun brings; no tidings the star of the evening; But morning and evening she sings, like a turtle-doe widowed and waiting;

Who acts: tidings, star · What happens: rise, bring, sing, widow, wait · To what, where: tidings, turtle doe

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 (tidings, 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	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 tidings	det
2	tidings	tiding	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 brings	nsubj
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 sun	det
4	rising	rise	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 sun	amod
5	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 brings	nsubj
6	brings	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	9 tidings	punct
8	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	9 tidings	det
9	tidings	tiding	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 brings	obj
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 star	det
11	star	star	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 tidings	appos
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 evening	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 evening	det
14	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 star	nmod
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 sings	punct
16	But	but	CCONJ	_	21 sings	cc
17	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 sings	obl:unmarked
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 evening	cc
19	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 morning	conj
20	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 sings	nsubj
21	sings	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 brings	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 doe	punct
23	like	like	ADP	_	27 doe	case
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 doe	det
25	turtle	turtle	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 doe	compound
26	-	-	PUNCT	_	25 turtle	punct
27	doe	doe	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 sings	obl
28	widowed	widow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 doe	acl
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 waiting	cc
30	waiting	wait	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	28 widowed	conj
31	;	;	PUNCT	_	6 brings	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	rise	gerund					vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	bring	present	no tidings	no tidings		the rising sun nsubj	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent tiding=Theme
3	sing speech: express	present	star		morning	like a turtle doe	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location
4	widow	participle		a turtle doe not said here			vn orphan-29.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	wait	gerund					vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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 110

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 7, sentence 110