Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 7, sentence 81
When their myriad mouths opened the trees to the sweet dew of heaven and the rain drops, And the April showers fell on the leas, on his mound fell the tears of Winona.
Who acts: myriad mouths, rain, April · What happens: open, drop, shower, fall · To what, where: trees, sweet dew, leas, tears, mound
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 (myriad mouths, rain, April), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 opened | advmod |
| 2 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 mouths | nmod:poss |
| 3 | myriad | myriad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 mouths | compound |
| 4 | mouths | mouth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 opened | nsubj |
| 5 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 drops | obl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 trees | det |
| 7 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 opened | obj |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 dew | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 dew | det |
| 10 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 dew | amod |
| 11 | dew | dew | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 opened | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 heaven | case |
| 13 | heaven | heaven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 dew | nmod |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 drops | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 rain | det |
| 16 | rain | rain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 drops | nsubj |
| 17 | drops | drop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 showers | punct |
| 19 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 showers | cc |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 April | det |
| 21 | April | April | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 showers | nsubj |
| 22 | showers | shower | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 drops | conj |
| 23 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 showers | ccomp |
| 24 | on | on | ADP | _ | 26 leas | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 leas | det |
| 26 | leas | lea | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 fell | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 fell | punct |
| 28 | on | on | ADP | _ | 30 mound | case |
| 29 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 mound | nmod:poss |
| 30 | mound | mound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 fell | obl |
| 31 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 fell | conj |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 tears | det |
| 33 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 fell | obj |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 Winona | case |
| 35 | Winona | Winona | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 tears | nmod |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 drops | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | open | past | Spirits's myriad mouths | the trees | the sweet dew of heaven | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent tree=Patient to dew=Recipient | |||
| 2 | drop | present | the rain | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | shower | present | the April | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | fall | past | the April not said here | the leas | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on lea=Location | ||||
| 5 | fall | past | the April not said here | the tears of Winona | rain's mound | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient tear=Result |
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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