Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 7, sentence 28

To the dim moon the gray owl preferred, from the tree top, his shrill lamentation, And around her at midnight she heard the dread famine-cries of the gray wolves.

Who acts: Ta, bow, gray wolves · What happens: prefer, hear, lament, cry · To what, where: gray owl, tree top, dread famine cries

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 (Ta, bow, gray wolves), 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	To	to	ADP	_	4 moon	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 moon	det
3	dim	dim	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 moon	amod
4	moon	moon	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 owl	obl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 owl	det
6	gray	gray	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 owl	amod
7	owl	owl	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	preferred	prefer	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 owl	acl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 top	punct
10	from	from	ADP	_	13 top	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 top	det
12	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 top	compound
13	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 preferred	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 lamentation	punct
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 lamentation	nmod:poss
16	shrill	shrill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 lamentation	amod
17	lamentation	lamentation	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 top	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 midnight	punct
19	And	and	CCONJ	_	23 midnight	cc
20	around	around	ADP	_	21 her	case
21	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 midnight	nmod:poss
22	at	at	ADP	_	23 midnight	case
23	midnight	midnight	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 owl	conj
24	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 heard	nsubj
25	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 midnight	acl:relcl
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 cries	det
27	dread	dread	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 cries	amod
28	famine	famine	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 cries	compound
29	-	-	PUNCT	_	28 famine	punct
30	cries	cry	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 heard	obj
31	of	of	ADP	_	34 wolves	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 wolves	det
33	gray	gray	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 wolves	compound
34	wolves	wolf	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 cries	nmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 owl	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	prefer	participle		the gray owl to the dim moon and Ta's midnight not said here	the tree top and bow's shrill lamentation	vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
2	hear	past	Ta	the dread famine cries of the gray wolves		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer cry=Stimulus
4	lament		bow			nom lamentation «communication transitive»: poss=agent
5	cry		the gray wolves			nom cry «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 28

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 7, sentence 28