Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 8, sentence 16
Her lone spirit evermore dwells in the depths of the Lake of the Mountains, And the lofty cliff evermore tells to the years as they pass her sad story.
Who acts: evermore dwells, dwells · What happens: tell, pass · To what, where: sad story, brant · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Feast of the Virgins., part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (evermore dwells, dwells), 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 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 dwells | nmod:poss |
| 2 | lone | lone | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 spirit | amod |
| 3 | spirit | spirit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 evermore | compound |
| 4 | evermore | evermore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 dwells | compound |
| 5 | dwells | dwell | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 tells | nsubj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 depths | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 depths | det |
| 8 | depths | depth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 dwells | nmod |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 Lake | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Lake | det |
| 11 | Lake | Lake | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 depths | nmod |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 Mountains | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Mountains | det |
| 14 | Mountains | Mountain | PROPN | Number=Plur | 11 Lake | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 tells | punct |
| 16 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 tells | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 evermore | det |
| 18 | lofty | lofty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 evermore | amod |
| 19 | cliff | cliff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 evermore | compound |
| 20 | evermore | evermore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 tells | nsubj |
| 21 | tells | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 years | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 years | det |
| 24 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 tells | obl |
| 25 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 27 pass | mark |
| 26 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 pass | nsubj |
| 27 | pass | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 tells | advcl |
| 28 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 pass | obj |
| 29 | sad | sad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 story | amod |
| 30 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 pass | obj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 tells | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | present | brant's evermore dwells in the depths of the Lake of the Mountains | year | the lofty cliff evermore nsubj | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | pass | present | dwells = dwell | sad story | brant | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient story=Theme |
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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