Legends of the Northwest, The Legend., sentence 48
[a] Many summers on the highland, in the full-moon's golden glow-- In the woods on Fairy Island, [b] walked a snow white fawn and doe Spirits of the babe and mother sadly seeking evermore, For a father's love another turned with evil charm and power.
Who acts: Many summers, snow, mother, love, full moon, father · What happens: walk, fawn, seek, turn, glow, love · To what, where: another
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 (Many summers, snow, mother, love), 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 | _ | 5 summers | punct |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 summers | det |
| 3 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 2 a | punct |
| 4 | Many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 summers | amod |
| 5 | summers | summer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 walked | nsubj |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 highland | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 highland | det |
| 8 | highland | highland | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 summers | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 glow | punct |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 glow | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 moon | det |
| 12 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 moon | amod |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 full | punct |
| 14 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 glow | nmod:poss |
| 15 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 14 moon | case |
| 16 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 glow | amod |
| 17 | glow | glow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 summers | conj |
| 18 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 21 woods | punct |
| 19 | In | in | ADP | _ | 21 woods | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 woods | det |
| 21 | woods | wood | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 summers | conj |
| 22 | on | on | ADP | _ | 24 Island | case |
| 23 | Fairy | Fairy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 Island | compound |
| 24 | Island | Island | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 woods | nmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 walked | punct |
| 26 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 27 b | punct |
| 27 | b | B | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 walked | nsubj |
| 28 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 27 b | punct |
| 29 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 fawn | det |
| 31 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 fawn | nsubj |
| 32 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 fawn | amod |
| 33 | fawn | fawn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 walked | obj |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 Spirits | cc |
| 35 | doe | doe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 Spirits | compound |
| 36 | Spirits | spirit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 fawn | conj |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 39 babe | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 babe | det |
| 39 | babe | babe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 Spirits | nmod |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 mother | cc |
| 41 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 babe | conj |
| 42 | sadly | sadly | ADV | _ | 43 seeking | advmod |
| 43 | seeking | seek | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 41 mother | acl |
| 44 | evermore | evermore | ADV | _ | 43 seeking | advmod |
| 45 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 50 love | punct |
| 46 | For | for | ADP | _ | 50 love | case |
| 47 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 48 father | det |
| 48 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 love | nmod:poss |
| 49 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 48 father | case |
| 50 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 seeking | obl |
| 51 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 52 turned | nsubj:pass |
| 52 | turned | turn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 50 love | acl:relcl |
| 53 | with | with | ADP | _ | 55 charm | case |
| 54 | evil | evil | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 55 charm | amod |
| 55 | charm | charm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 52 turned | obl |
| 56 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 57 power | cc |
| 57 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 55 charm | conj |
| 58 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 29 walked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk | past | a Many summers on the highland and the full moon's golden glow and the woods on Fairy Island | b nsubj | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | fawn | snow | doe Spirits of the babe and mother conj | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | seek | gerund | mother not said here | for a father's love; evermore, sadly property | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent for love=Theme | ||||
| 4 | turn | participle · passive | a father's love not said here | another | with evil charm and power | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme | |||
| 5 | glow | the full moon | nom glow «state intransitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 6 | love | a father | nom love «feeling transitive»: poss=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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