Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 8, sentence 3
I harked for his footsteps in vain; afar His bark sailed over the Sunrise-sea.
Who acts: I, afar bark · What happens: hark, sail · To what, where: vain, Sunrise sea
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 (I, afar bark), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 harked | nsubj |
| 2 | harked | hark | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 footsteps | case |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 footsteps | nmod:poss |
| 5 | footsteps | footstep | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 harked | obl |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 vain | case |
| 7 | vain | vain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 harked | obl |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 sailed | punct |
| 9 | afar | afar | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 bark | amod |
| 10 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 bark | nmod:poss |
| 11 | bark | bark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 sailed | nsubj |
| 12 | sailed | sail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 harked | conj |
| 13 | over | over | ADP | _ | 17 sea | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 sea | det |
| 15 | Sunrise | sunrise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 sea | compound |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 Sunrise | punct |
| 17 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 sailed | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 harked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hark | past | I | vain | for face's footsteps | tree rules | |||
| 2 | sail | past | face's afar bark | the Sunrise sea | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over sea=Trajectory |
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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