Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 7, sentence 126

From the tees rose the smoke of good cheer, curling blue through the tops of the maples, Near the foot of a cliff that arose, like the battle-scarred walls of a castle.

Who acts: tees, cliff, good cheer · What happens: rise, curl, arise, scar, smoke · To what, where: smoke, tops

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 (tees, cliff, good cheer), 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	From	from	ADP	_	3 tees	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 tees	det
3	tees	tee	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 rose	nsubj
4	rose	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 smoke	det
6	smoke	smoke	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 rose	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 cheer	case
8	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 cheer	amod
9	cheer	cheer	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 smoke	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 curling	punct
11	curling	curl	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 rose	advcl
12	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 curling	xcomp
13	through	through	ADP	_	15 tops	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 tops	det
15	tops	top	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 curling	obl
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 maples	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 maples	det
18	maples	maple	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 tops	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 foot	punct
20	Near	near	ADP	_	22 foot	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 foot	det
22	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 curling	obl
23	of	of	ADP	_	25 cliff	case
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 cliff	det
25	cliff	cliff	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 foot	nmod
26	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 arose	nsubj
27	arose	arise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 cliff	acl:relcl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 walls	punct
29	like	like	ADP	_	34 walls	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 walls	det
31	battle	battle	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 scarred	compound
32	-	-	PUNCT	_	31 battle	punct
33	scarred	scar	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	34 walls	amod
34	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 arose	obl
35	of	of	ADP	_	37 castle	case
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 castle	det
37	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 walls	nmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 rose	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	rise	past	the tees	the smoke of good cheer			vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location smoke=Theme
2	curl	gerund	the tees not said here		the tops of the maples	near the foot of a cliff; blue property	vn coil-9.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through top=Destination
3	arise	past	a cliff			like the scarred walls of a castle	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	scar	participle				battle compound	vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	smoke		good cheer				nom smoke «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 7, sentence 126

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 7, sentence 126