Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 7, sentence 61

And the guide of her steps was a star --the cold-glinting star of Wazíya--[a] Over meadow and hilltop afar, on the way to the lodge of her father.

Who acts: guide, Winona · What happens: be, glint, hilltop, step · To what, where: star, way

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 (guide, Winona), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	9 star	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 guide	det
3	guide	guide	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 star	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 steps	case
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 steps	nmod:poss
6	steps	step	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 guide	nmod
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 star	cop
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 star	det
9	star	star	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	--	--	PUNCT	_	15 star	punct
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 star	det
12	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 star	amod
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 cold	punct
14	glinting	glint	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	15 star	amod
15	star	star	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 star	parataxis
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 Wazíya	case
17	Wazíya	Wazíya	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 star	nmod
18	--	--	PUNCT	_	23 meadow	punct
19	[	[	PUNCT	_	23 meadow	punct
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 meadow	det
21	]	]	PUNCT	_	23 meadow	punct
22	Over	over	ADP	_	23 meadow	case
23	meadow	meadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 star	parataxis
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 hilltop	cc
25	hilltop	hilltop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 meadow	conj
26	afar	afar	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 hilltop	xcomp
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 way	punct
28	on	on	ADP	_	30 way	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 way	det
30	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 hilltop	obl
31	to	to	ADP	_	33 lodge	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 lodge	det
33	lodge	lodge	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 way	nmod
34	of	of	ADP	_	36 father	case
35	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 father	nmod:poss
36	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 lodge	nmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 star	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the guide of Winona's steps	a star		the cold glinting star of Wazíya over a meadow parataxis	tree rules
2	glint	gerund					vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	hilltop	present	the guide of Winona's steps not said here		the way to the lodge of Winona's father	afar property	tree rules
4	step		Winona				nom step «act 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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🌲 Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 7, sentence 61

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 7, sentence 61