Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 7, sentence 68

All the long, dreary night-time, at bay, in the oak sat the shivering Winona; But the sun gleamed at last, and away skulked the gray cowards [c] down through the forest.

Who acts: oak, sun · What happens: sit, shiver, gleam, skulk · To what, where: shivering Winona, last, gray cowards, forest

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 (oak, sun), 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	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 time	det:predet
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 time	det
3	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 time	amod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 long	punct
5	dreary	dreary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 time	amod
6	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 time	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 night	punct
8	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 sat	obl:unmarked
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 bay	punct
10	at	at	ADP	_	11 bay	case
11	bay	bay	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 time	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 oak	punct
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 oak	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 oak	det
15	oak	oak	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 sat	nsubj
16	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 Winona	det
18	shivering	shiver	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	19 Winona	amod
19	Winona	Winona	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 sat	obj
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 gleamed	punct
21	But	but	CCONJ	_	24 gleamed	cc
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 sun	det
23	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 gleamed	nsubj
24	gleamed	gleam	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 sat	conj
25	at	at	ADP	_	26 last	case
26	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 gleamed	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 skulked	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 skulked	cc
29	away	away	ADV	_	30 skulked	advmod
30	skulked	skulk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 sat	conj
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 cowards	det
32	gray	gray	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 cowards	amod
33	cowards	coward	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 skulked	obj
34	[	[	PUNCT	_	35 c	punct
35	c	c	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 cowards	appos
36	]	]	PUNCT	_	35 c	punct
37	down	down	ADV	_	30 skulked	advmod
38	through	through	ADP	_	40 forest	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 forest	det
40	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 skulked	obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	past	the oak	the shivering Winona		time		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location winona=Theme
2	shiver	gerund						vn body_internal_states-40.6 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	gleam	participle	the sun		last			vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at last=Location
4	skulk	past	the oak not said here	the gray cowards	the forest		away, down property	vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location coward=Theme

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 68

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 7, sentence 68