Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 7, sentence 42

Ah, no; I am half in a dream! --'twas the mem'ry of days long departed; But the birds of the green Summer seem to be singing above in the branches."

Who acts: I, birds · What happens: be, depart, seem, sing · To what, where: dream, days, branches

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 (I, birds), 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	Ah	ah	INTJ	_	10 dream	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Ah	punct
3	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	1 Ah	discourse
4	;	;	PUNCT	_	1 Ah	punct
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 dream	nsubj
6	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 dream	cop
7	half	half	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	10 dream	advmod
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 dream	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 dream	det
10	dream	dream	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
11	!	!	PUNCT	_	10 dream	punct
12	--	--	PUNCT	_	14 twas	punct
13	'	'	PUNCT	_	14 twas	punct
14	twas	twa	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 dream	appos
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 mem'ry	det
16	mem'ry	mem'ry	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 twas	conj
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 days	case
18	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 mem'ry	nmod
19	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	20 departed	advmod
20	departed	depart	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 days	acl
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 seem	punct
22	But	but	CCONJ	_	29 seem	cc
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 birds	det
24	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 seem	nsubj
25	of	of	ADP	_	28 Summer	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 Summer	det
27	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 Summer	amod
28	Summer	Summer	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 birds	nmod
29	seem	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 dream	parataxis
30	to	to	PART	_	32 singing	mark
31	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	32 singing	aux
32	singing	sing	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	29 seem	advcl
33	above	above	ADV	_	32 singing	advmod
34	in	in	ADP	_	36 branches	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 branches	det
36	branches	branch	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 singing	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 dream	punct
38	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 dream	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	I		a dream	twas and the mem'ry of days appos; half property	tree rules
2	depart	participle		days not said here		long property	vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	seem	present	the birds of the green Summer				vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
4	sing speech: express	to-infinitive · progressive	the birds of the green Summer not said here		the branches	above property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in branch=Location

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 42

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 7, sentence 42