Legends of the Northwest, The Legend., sentence 47
On the bluffs they sat enchanted till the blush of beamy dawn; Spirit Isle they say, is haunted, and they call the spot "Wakân."
Who acts: maidens, beamy dawn · What happens: enchant, say, haunt, call, blush · To what, where: maidens, bluffs, Spirit Isle, spot · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (maidens, beamy dawn), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 3 bluffs | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 bluffs | det |
| 3 | bluffs | bluff | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 enchanted | obl |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 enchanted | nsubj |
| 5 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 enchanted | aux:pass |
| 6 | enchanted | enchant | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | till | till | ADP | _ | 9 blush | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 blush | det |
| 9 | blush | blush | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 enchanted | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 dawn | case |
| 11 | beamy | beamy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 dawn | amod |
| 12 | dawn | dawn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 blush | nmod |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 say | punct |
| 14 | Spirit | Spirit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Isle | compound |
| 15 | Isle | Isle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 say | obl |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 say | nsubj |
| 17 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 enchanted | parataxis |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 haunted | punct |
| 19 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 haunted | aux:pass |
| 20 | haunted | haunt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 say | ccomp |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 call | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 call | cc |
| 23 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 call | nsubj |
| 24 | call | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 say | conj |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 spot | det |
| 26 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 call | obj |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 28 Wakân | punct |
| 28 | Wakân | Wakân | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 call | xcomp |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 enchanted | punct |
| 30 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 enchanted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enchant | past · passive | maidens = maiden | the bluffs | till the blush of beamy dawn | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present | maidens = maiden | Spirit Isle | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | haunt | present · passive | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle» | ||||||
| 4 | call | present | maidens = maiden | the spot | Wakân xcomp | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent spot=Recipient | |||
| 5 | blush | beamy dawn | nom blush «state intransitive»: of=agent |
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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