Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 7, sentence 132
The Day-Spirit walked in the west to his lodge in the land of the shadows; His shining face gleamed on the crest of the oak-hooded hills and the mountains, And the meadow-lark hied to her nest, and the mottled owl peeped from her cover.
Who acts: Day Spirit, mottled owl · What happens: walk, shine, gleam, hood, hie, mottle · To what, where: shining face, west, crest, meadow lark
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 (Day Spirit, mottled owl), 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 | 4 Spirit | det |
| 2 | Day | Day | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Spirit | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 Day | punct |
| 4 | Spirit | Spirit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 walked | nsubj |
| 5 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 west | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 west | det |
| 8 | west | west | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 walked | obl |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 lodge | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 lodge | nmod:poss |
| 11 | lodge | lodge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 walked | obl |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 land | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 land | det |
| 14 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 lodge | nmod |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 shadows | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 shadows | det |
| 17 | shadows | shadow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 land | nmod |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 face | punct |
| 19 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 face | nmod:poss |
| 20 | shining | shine | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 21 face | amod |
| 21 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 walked | obl |
| 22 | gleamed | gleam | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 face | acl |
| 23 | on | on | ADP | _ | 25 crest | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 crest | det |
| 25 | crest | crest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 gleamed | obl |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 hills | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 hills | det |
| 28 | oak | oak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 hooded | compound |
| 29 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 28 oak | punct |
| 30 | hooded | hood | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 31 hills | amod |
| 31 | hills | hill | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 crest | nmod |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 mountains | cc |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 mountains | det |
| 34 | mountains | mountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 hills | conj |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 lark | punct |
| 36 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 lark | cc |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 lark | det |
| 38 | meadow | meadow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 lark | compound |
| 39 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 38 meadow | punct |
| 40 | lark | lark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 face | conj |
| 41 | hied | hie | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 40 lark | acl |
| 42 | to | to | ADP | _ | 44 nest | case |
| 43 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 44 nest | nmod:poss |
| 44 | nest | nest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 hied | obl |
| 45 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 50 peeped | punct |
| 46 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 50 peeped | cc |
| 47 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 49 owl | det |
| 48 | mottled | mottle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 49 owl | amod |
| 49 | owl | owl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 peeped | nsubj |
| 50 | peeped | peep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 walked | conj |
| 51 | from | from | ADP | _ | 53 cover | case |
| 52 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 53 cover | nmod:poss |
| 53 | cover | cover | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 peeped | obl |
| 54 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 walked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk | past | the Day Spirit | memory's shining face and the meadow lark | the west | to memory's lodge in the land of the shadows result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to lodge=Result | ||
| 2 | shine | gerund | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | gleam | participle | memory's shining face and the meadow lark not said here | the crest of the hooded hills and the mountains | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on crest=Location | ||||
| 4 | hood | participle | oak compound | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | hie | participle | the meadow lark not said here | to lark's nest | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | mottle | participle | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 7 | peep | past | the mottled owl | from lark's cover | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent from cover=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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