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Legends of the Northwest, The Legend., sentence 22

Still she dressed the skins of beaver, bore the burdens, spread the fare; Patient ever, murmuring never, while her cheeks were creased with care.

Who acts: star, burdens, Patient · What happens: dress, bear, spread, not murmur, crease · To what, where: skins, burdens, fare, cheeks

This is a sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Legend.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (star, burdens, Patient), 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

advmodnsubjdetobjcasenmodpunctconjdetobjpunctacl:relcldetobjpunctnsubjadvmodpunctadvcladvmodpunctmarknmod:possnsubjaux:passconjcaseoblpunctrootStillADVshePRONdressedVERBtheDETskinsNOUNofADPbeaverNOUN,PUNCTboreVERBtheDETburdensNOUN,PUNCTspreadVERBtheDETfareNOUN;PUNCTPatientPROPNeverADV,PUNCTmurmuringVERBneverADV,PUNCTwhileSCONJherPRONcheeksNOUNwereAUXcreasedVERBwithADPcareNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1StillstillADV_3 dressedadvmod
2sheshePRONCase=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs3 dressednsubj
3dresseddressVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
4thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art5 skinsdet
5skinsskinNOUNNumber=Plur3 dressedobj
6ofofADP_7 beavercase
7beaverbeaverNOUNNumber=Sing5 skinsnmod
8,,PUNCT_9 borepunct
9borebearVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin3 dressedconj
10thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art11 burdensdet
11burdensburdenNOUNNumber=Plur9 boreobj
12,,PUNCT_13 spreadpunct
13spreadspreadVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin11 burdensacl:relcl
14thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art15 faredet
15farefareNOUNNumber=Sing13 spreadobj
16;;PUNCT_20 murmuringpunct
17PatientPatientPROPNNumber=Sing20 murmuringnsubj
18evereverADVPronType=Ind20 murmuringadvmod
19,,PUNCT_20 murmuringpunct
20murmuringmurmurVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part3 dressedadvcl
21neverneverADVPronType=Neg20 murmuringadvmod
22,,PUNCT_27 creasedpunct
23whilewhileSCONJ_27 creasedmark
24herherPRONCase=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs25 cheeksnmod:poss
25cheekscheekNOUNNumber=Plur27 creasednsubj
26werebeAUXMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin27 creasedaux:pass
27creasedcreaseVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass20 murmuringconj
28withwithADP_29 carecase
29carecareNOUNNumber=Sing27 creasedobl
30..PUNCT_3 dressedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1dresspaststarthe skins of beaverstillvn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skin=Patient
2bearpaststar not said herethe burdensvn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent burden=Patient
3spreadpresentthe burdens not said herethe farevn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location fare=Theme
4not murmur speech: othergerundPatientevervn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5creasepast · passivestar's cheekswith carevn bend-45.2 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with care=Instrument

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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