Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 8, sentence 17

[a] In the silence of sorrow the night o'er the earth spread her wide, sable pinions; And the stars [18] hid their faces, and light on the lake fell the tears of the spirits.

Who acts: earth, silence, light · What happens: spread, hide, fall, silence · To what, where: wide sable pinions, faces, tears, sorrow

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 (earth, silence, light), 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	[	[	PUNCT	_	6 silence	punct
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 silence	det
3	]	]	PUNCT	_	6 silence	punct
4	In	in	ADP	_	6 silence	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 silence	det
6	silence	silence	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 hid	nsubj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 sorrow	case
8	sorrow	sorrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 silence	nmod
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 night	det
10	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 silence	appos
11	o'er	o'er	SCONJ	_	14 spread	mark
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 earth	det
13	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 spread	nsubj
14	spread	spread	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 night	acl
15	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 pinions	nmod:poss
16	wide	wide	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 pinions	amod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 wide	punct
18	sable	sable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 pinions	amod
19	pinions	pinion	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 spread	obj
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 stars	punct
21	And	and	CCONJ	_	23 stars	cc
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 stars	det
23	stars	star	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 hid	nsubj
24	[	[	PUNCT	_	25 18	punct
25	18	18	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	23 stars	appos
26	]	]	PUNCT	_	25 18	punct
27	hid	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
28	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 faces	nmod:poss
29	faces	face	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 hid	obj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 fell	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 fell	cc
32	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 fell	nsubj
33	on	on	ADP	_	35 lake	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 lake	det
35	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 light	nmod
36	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 hid	conj
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 tears	det
38	tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 fell	obj
39	of	of	ADP	_	41 spirits	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 spirits	det
41	spirits	spirit	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 tears	nmod
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	27 hid	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	spread	past	the earth	earth's wide sable pinions		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location pinion=Theme
2	hide	past	a silence of sorrow	pinions's faces	the stars nsubj	vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent face=Patient
3	fall	past	light on the lake	the tears of the spirits		vn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient tear=Result
4	silence			sorrow		nom silence «state transitive»: of=patient

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 8, sentence 17

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 8, sentence 17