Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 7, sentence 54
Thus sadly she chanted, and lo --allured by her sorrowful accents-- From the dark covert crept a red doe and wondrously gazed on Winona.
Who acts: Hé · What happens: chant, allure, creep, gaze, accent · To what, where: red doe, dark covert
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 (Hé), 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 | Thus | thus | ADV | _ | 2 sadly | advmod |
| 2 | sadly | sadly | ADV | _ | 4 chanted | advmod |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 chanted | nsubj |
| 4 | chanted | chant | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 accents | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 accents | cc |
| 7 | lo | lo | INTJ | _ | 13 accents | discourse |
| 8 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 7 lo | punct |
| 9 | allured | allure | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 accents | amod |
| 10 | by | by | ADP | _ | 13 accents | case |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 accents | nmod:poss |
| 12 | sorrowful | sorrowful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 accents | amod |
| 13 | accents | accent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 chanted | obl |
| 14 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 19 crept | punct |
| 15 | From | from | ADP | _ | 18 covert | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 covert | det |
| 17 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 covert | amod |
| 18 | covert | covert | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 crept | obl |
| 19 | crept | creep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 chanted | parataxis |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 doe | det |
| 21 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 doe | amod |
| 22 | doe | doe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 crept | obj |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 gazed | cc |
| 24 | wondrously | wondrously | ADV | _ | 25 gazed | advmod |
| 25 | gazed | gaze | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 crept | conj |
| 26 | on | on | ADP | _ | 27 Winona | case |
| 27 | Winona | Winona | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 gazed | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 chanted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | chant | past | Hé | by Hé's allured sorrowful accents; sadly property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | allure | participle | vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | creep | past | a red doe | the dark covert | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location doe=Theme | ||||
| 4 | gaze | participle | on Winona; wondrously property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on winona=Theme | |||||
| 5 | accent | Hé | nom accent «communication transitive»: poss=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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