Legends of the Northwest, The Legend of the Falls., sentence 19
Lo from out the waters foaming--from the cavern deep and dread-- Through the glamour and the gloaming, comes a spirit of the dead.
Who acts: waters, foaming · What happens: foam, dread, come · To what, where: cavern, spirit
This is a sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Legend of the Falls.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (waters, foaming), 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 | Lo | lo | INTJ | _ | 6 foaming | discourse |
| 2 | from | from | SCONJ | _ | 6 foaming | mark |
| 3 | out | out | ADP | _ | 6 foaming | mark |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 waters | det |
| 5 | waters | water | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 foaming | nsubj |
| 6 | foaming | foam | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 22 comes | csubj |
| 7 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 10 cavern | punct |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 cavern | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 cavern | det |
| 10 | cavern | cavern | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 foaming | obl |
| 11 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 cavern | amod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 dread | cc |
| 13 | dread | dread | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 deep | conj |
| 14 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 17 glamour | punct |
| 15 | Through | through | ADP | _ | 17 glamour | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 glamour | det |
| 17 | glamour | glamour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 foaming | parataxis |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 gloaming | cc |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 gloaming | det |
| 20 | gloaming | gloaming | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 glamour | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 foaming | punct |
| 22 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 spirit | det |
| 24 | spirit | spirit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 comes | obj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 dead | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 dead | det |
| 27 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 spirit | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 22 comes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | foam | gerund | the waters | the cavern | the glamour and the gloaming parataxis | vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP.theme V PP.source»: agent=Theme from cavern=Source | |||
| 2 | dread | infinitive | the waters not said here | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | come | present | foaming | a spirit of the dead | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location spirit=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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