Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 7, sentence 80
With the waning of winter, alas, waned the life of the aged Tatépsin; Ere the blue pansies peeped from the grass, to the Land of the Spirits he journeyed; Like a babe in its slumber he passed, or the snow from the hill tops in April; And the dark-eyed Winona, at last, stood alone by the graves of her kindred.
Who acts: land, eyed Winona, winter, grass · What happens: wane, peep, journey, pass, stand, slumber · To what, where: life, blue pansies, Spirits, slumber
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 (land, eyed Winona, winter, grass), 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 | With | with | ADP | _ | 3 waning | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 waning | det |
| 3 | waning | waning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 waned | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 winter | case |
| 5 | winter | winter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 waning | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 alas | punct |
| 7 | alas | ala | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 waning | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 waning | punct |
| 9 | waned | wane | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 life | det |
| 11 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 waned | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 Tatépsin | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Tatépsin | det |
| 14 | aged | aged | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 Tatépsin | amod |
| 15 | Tatépsin | Tatépsin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 life | nmod |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 Ere | punct |
| 17 | Ere | Ere | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Tatépsin | flat |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 pansies | det |
| 19 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 pansies | amod |
| 20 | pansies | pansy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 Tatépsin | conj |
| 21 | peeped | peep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 pansies | acl |
| 22 | from | from | ADP | _ | 24 grass | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 grass | det |
| 24 | grass | grass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 peeped | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 Land | punct |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 Land | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 Land | det |
| 28 | Land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 waned | obl |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 Spirits | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 Spirits | det |
| 31 | Spirits | spirit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 Land | nmod |
| 32 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 journeyed | nsubj |
| 33 | journeyed | journey | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 Spirits | acl:relcl |
| 34 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 37 babe | punct |
| 35 | Like | like | ADP | _ | 37 babe | case |
| 36 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 babe | det |
| 37 | babe | babe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 waned | parataxis |
| 38 | in | in | ADP | _ | 40 slumber | case |
| 39 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 40 slumber | nmod:poss |
| 40 | slumber | slumber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 babe | nmod |
| 41 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 passed | nsubj |
| 42 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 40 slumber | acl:relcl |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 snow | punct |
| 44 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 46 snow | cc |
| 45 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 snow | det |
| 46 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 babe | conj |
| 47 | from | from | ADP | _ | 50 tops | case |
| 48 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 50 tops | det |
| 49 | hill | hill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 tops | compound |
| 50 | tops | top | NOUN | Number=Plur | 46 snow | nmod |
| 51 | in | in | ADP | _ | 52 April | case |
| 52 | April | April | PROPN | Number=Sing | 50 tops | nmod |
| 53 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 64 stood | punct |
| 54 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 64 stood | cc |
| 55 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 59 Winona | det |
| 56 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 58 eyed | amod |
| 57 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 56 dark | punct |
| 58 | eyed | eyed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 59 Winona | amod |
| 59 | Winona | Winona | PROPN | Number=Sing | 64 stood | nsubj |
| 60 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 62 last | punct |
| 61 | at | at | ADP | _ | 62 last | case |
| 62 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 59 Winona | conj |
| 63 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 59 Winona | punct |
| 64 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 waned | conj |
| 65 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 64 stood | advmod |
| 66 | by | by | ADP | _ | 68 graves | case |
| 67 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 68 graves | det |
| 68 | graves | grave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 64 stood | obl |
| 69 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 71 kindred | mark |
| 70 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 71 kindred | nmod:poss |
| 71 | kindred | kindred | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 68 graves | acl |
| 72 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 waned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wane | past | the life of the aged Tatépsin and the blue pansies | with the waning of winter and alas; to the Land of the Spirits; a babe in grass's slumber or the snow from the hill tops in April parataxis | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | peep | participle | the blue pansies not said here | from the grass | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent from grass=Theme | ||||
| 3 | journey | past | land | the Spirits not said here | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme spirit=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | pass | past | land | grass's slumber not said here | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme slumber=Trajectory | ||||
| 5 | stand | past | the eyed Winona | by the graves; alone property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by grave=Location | ||||
| 6 | wane | winter | nom waning «event intransitive»: of=agent | ||||||
| 7 | slumber | grass | nom slumber «state intransitive»: 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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