Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 7, sentence 63
And nearer,--still nearer! --the blood of the doe have they scented and follow; Through the thicket, the meadow, the wood, dash the pack on the trail of Winona.
Who acts: blood, wolves · What happens: have, scent, follow, dash · To what, where: pack
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 (blood, 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 2 nearer | cc |
| 2 | nearer | near | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 nearer | punct |
| 4 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 6 nearer | punct |
| 5 | still | still | ADV | _ | 6 nearer | advmod |
| 6 | nearer | near | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 2 nearer | conj |
| 7 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 nearer | punct |
| 8 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 14 have | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 blood | det |
| 10 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 have | nsubj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 doe | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 doe | det |
| 13 | doe | doe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 blood | nmod |
| 14 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 nearer | parataxis |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 scented | nsubj |
| 16 | scented | scent | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 have | xcomp |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 follow | cc |
| 18 | follow | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 scented | conj |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 thicket | punct |
| 20 | Through | through | ADP | _ | 22 thicket | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 thicket | det |
| 22 | thicket | thicket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 have | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 meadow | punct |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 meadow | det |
| 25 | meadow | meadow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 thicket | conj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 wood | punct |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 wood | det |
| 28 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 thicket | conj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 dash | punct |
| 30 | dash | dash | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 have | conj |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 pack | det |
| 32 | pack | pack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 dash | obj |
| 33 | on | on | ADP | _ | 35 trail | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 trail | det |
| 35 | trail | trail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 dash | obl |
| 36 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 Winona | case |
| 37 | Winona | Winona | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 trail | nmod |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 nearer | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | the blood of the doe | the thicket and the meadow and the wood conj | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | scent | participle | wolves = wolf | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | follow | infinitive | wolves = wolf not said here | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | dash | infinitive | the blood of the doe not said here | the pack | on the trail of Winona | vn hit-18.1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent pack=Instrument on trail=Patient |
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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