Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 7, sentence 9

Ever colder and colder it grew, till the frozen earth cracked and split open; And harder and harder it blew, till the prairies were bare as the boulders.

Who acts: bison, prairies · What happens: grow, freeze, crack, split, blow, be · To what, where: frozen earth

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 (bison, prairies), 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	Ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	2 colder	advmod
2	colder	cold	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 colder	cc
4	colder	cold	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 colder	conj
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 grew	nsubj
6	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 colder	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 earth	punct
8	till	till	ADP	_	11 earth	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 earth	det
10	frozen	freeze	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 earth	amod
11	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 grew	obl
12	cracked	crack	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 earth	acl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 split	cc
14	split	split	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 cracked	conj
15	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 split	xcomp
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 harder	punct
17	And	and	CCONJ	_	18 harder	cc
18	harder	hard	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 colder	conj
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 harder	cc
20	harder	hard	ADV	Degree=Cmp	22 blew	advmod
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 blew	nsubj
22	blew	blow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 harder	advcl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 bare	punct
24	till	till	SCONJ	_	28 bare	mark
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 prairies	det
26	prairies	prairie	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 bare	nsubj
27	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 bare	cop
28	bare	bare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 blew	ccomp
29	as	as	ADP	_	31 boulders	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 boulders	det
31	boulders	boulder	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 bare	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 colder	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	grow	past	bison		till the frozen earth		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	freeze	participle					vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	crack	participle		the frozen earth not said here			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	split	participle				open property	vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
5	blow	past	bison			hard property	vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient
6	is	past	the prairies			as the boulders; bare property	tree rules

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 9

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 7, sentence 9