Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 7, sentence 82

Round her drooping form gathered the years and the spirits unseen of her kindred, As low, in the midst of her tears, at the grave of her father she chanted:

Who acts: Winona · What happens: droop, gather, chant, form · To what, where: midst, father

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 (Winona), 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	Round	round	ADP	_	4 form	case
2	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 form	nmod:poss
3	drooping	droop	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 form	amod
4	form	form	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 gathered	obl
5	gathered	gather	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 years	det
7	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 gathered	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 unseen	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 unseen	det
10	spirits	spirit	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 unseen	compound
11	unseen	unseen	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 years	conj
12	of	of	SCONJ	_	14 kindred	mark
13	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 kindred	nmod:poss
14	kindred	kindred	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 unseen	acl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 low	punct
16	As	as	ADP	_	17 low	case
17	low	low	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 kindred	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 midst	punct
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 midst	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 midst	det
21	midst	midst	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 gathered	obl
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 tears	case
23	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 tears	nmod:poss
24	tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 midst	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 grave	punct
26	at	at	ADP	_	28 grave	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 grave	det
28	grave	grave	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 gathered	parataxis
29	of	of	ADP	_	31 father	case
30	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 father	nmod:poss
31	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 grave	nmod
32	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 chanted	nsubj
33	chanted	chant	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 father	acl:relcl
34	:	:	PUNCT	_	5 gathered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	droop	gerund						vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	gather	past			the midst of Winona's tears	year	round Winona's drooping form; the grave of Winona's father parataxis	vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	chant	past	Winona	Winona's father not said here				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent father=Topic
4	form		Winona					nom form «communication transitive»: 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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🌲 Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 7, sentence 82

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 7, sentence 82