Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 7, sentence 7
Like the down of Magá [a] fell the snows, tossed and whirled into heaps by the North-wind.
Who acts: Magá · What happens: fall, toss, whirl · To what, where: snows, heaps
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 (Magá), 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 | Like | like | ADP | _ | 3 down | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 down | det |
| 3 | down | down | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Magá | case |
| 5 | Magá | Magá | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 down | nmod |
| 6 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 9 fell | punct |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 fell | det |
| 8 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 7 a | punct |
| 9 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 Magá | acl:relcl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 snows | det |
| 11 | snows | snow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 fell | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 tossed | punct |
| 13 | tossed | toss | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 snows | acl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 whirled | cc |
| 15 | whirled | whirl | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 tossed | conj |
| 16 | into | into | ADP | _ | 17 heaps | case |
| 17 | heaps | heap | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 whirled | obl |
| 18 | by | by | ADP | _ | 22 wind | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 wind | det |
| 20 | North | North | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 wind | compound |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 North | punct |
| 22 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 whirled | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 down | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | past | Magá not said here | the snows | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient snow=Result | ||||
| 2 | toss | participle | the snows not said here | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | whirl | participle | heaps | by the North wind | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Theme into heap=Source by wind=Trajectory |
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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