Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 7, sentence 99
Still hope, like a star in the night gleaming oft through the broken clouds somber, Cheered the heart of Winona, and bright, on her dreams, beamed the face of the Frenchman.
Who acts: star, Still hope, Winona · What happens: gleam, break, cheer, beam, dream · To what, where: broken clouds somber, heart, face
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 (star, Still hope, 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 | Still | still | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 hope | amod |
| 2 | hope | hope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 Cheered | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 star | punct |
| 4 | like | like | ADP | _ | 6 star | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 star | det |
| 6 | star | star | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 hope | conj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 night | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 night | det |
| 9 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 star | nmod |
| 10 | gleaming | gleam | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 star | acl |
| 11 | oft | oft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 gleaming | xcomp |
| 12 | through | through | ADP | _ | 16 somber | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 somber | det |
| 14 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 somber | amod |
| 15 | clouds | cloud | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 somber | compound |
| 16 | somber | somber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 gleaming | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 hope | punct |
| 18 | Cheered | cheer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 heart | det |
| 20 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 Cheered | obj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 Winona | case |
| 22 | Winona | Winona | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 heart | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 bright | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 bright | cc |
| 25 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 Cheered | parataxis |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 dreams | punct |
| 27 | on | on | ADP | _ | 29 dreams | case |
| 28 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 dreams | nmod:poss |
| 29 | dreams | dream | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 bright | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 beamed | punct |
| 31 | beamed | beam | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 bright | conj |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 face | det |
| 33 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 beamed | obj |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 Frenchman | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 Frenchman | det |
| 36 | Frenchman | frenchman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 face | nmod |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 Cheered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gleam | gerund | a star in the night not said here | the broken clouds somber | oft property | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through somber=Location | |||
| 2 | break | participle | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 3 | cheer | past | Still hope and a star in the night | the heart of Winona | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus heart=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | beam | past | Still hope and a star in the night not said here | the face of the Frenchman | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent face=Theme | ||||
| 5 | dream | Winona | nom dream «cognition 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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