Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 7, sentence 75
Wazíya's wild wrath was appeased, and homeward he turned to his teepee, [3] O'er the plains and the forest-land breezed, from the Islands of Summer, the South wind.
Who acts: homeward, forest land · What happens: appease, turn, breeze · To what, where: wild wrath, Islands
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 (homeward, forest land), 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 | Wazíya | Wazíya | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 wrath | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Wazíya | case |
| 3 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 wrath | amod |
| 4 | wrath | wrath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 appeased | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 appeased | aux:pass |
| 6 | appeased | appease | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 turned | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 turned | cc |
| 9 | homeward | homeward | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 turned | nsubj |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 turned | nsubj |
| 11 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 appeased | conj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 teepee | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 teepee | nmod:poss |
| 14 | teepee | teepee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 turned | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 3 | punct |
| 16 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 17 3 | punct |
| 17 | 3 | 3 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 14 teepee | appos |
| 18 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 17 3 | punct |
| 19 | O'er | o'er | ADP | _ | 21 plains | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 plains | det |
| 21 | plains | plain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 turned | obl |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 breezed | cc |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 land | det |
| 24 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 land | compound |
| 25 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 24 forest | punct |
| 26 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 breezed | nsubj |
| 27 | breezed | breeze | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 plains | conj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 Islands | punct |
| 29 | from | from | ADP | _ | 31 Islands | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 Islands | det |
| 31 | Islands | Island | PROPN | Number=Plur | 11 turned | obl |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 Summer | case |
| 33 | Summer | Summer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 Islands | nmod |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 wind | punct |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 wind | det |
| 36 | South | South | PROPN | Number=Sing | 37 wind | compound |
| 37 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 Islands | conj |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 appeased | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | appease | past · passive | Wazíya's wild wrath | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | turn | past | homeward | the Islands of Summer and the South wind | to homeward's teepee result; o'er the plains | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V PP.material PP.result»: agent=Agent to teepee=Result from island=Initial_State | |||
| 3 | breeze | past | the forest land | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=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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