Legends of the Northwest, The Legend., sentence 51
Sometimes still when moonbeams shimmer through the maples on the lawn, In the gloaming and the glimmer walk the silent doe and fawn; And on Spirit-Isle or near it, under midnight's misty moon, Oft is seen the mother's spirit, oft is heard her mournful tune.
Who acts: moonbeams, gloaming · What happens: shimmer, walk, see, hear · To what, where: maples, silent doe, Oft, Spirit Isle
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 (moonbeams, gloaming), 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 | Sometimes | sometimes | ADV | PronType=Ind | 5 shimmer | advmod |
| 2 | still | still | ADV | _ | 5 shimmer | advmod |
| 3 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 shimmer | advmod |
| 4 | moonbeams | moonbeam | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 shimmer | nsubj |
| 5 | shimmer | shimmer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | through | through | ADP | _ | 8 maples | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 maples | det |
| 8 | maples | maple | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 shimmer | obl |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 lawn | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 lawn | det |
| 11 | lawn | lawn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 maples | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 gloaming | punct |
| 13 | In | in | ADP | _ | 15 gloaming | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 gloaming | det |
| 15 | gloaming | gloaming | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 walk | nsubj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 glimmer | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 glimmer | det |
| 18 | glimmer | glimmer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 gloaming | conj |
| 19 | walk | walk | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 shimmer | parataxis |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 doe | det |
| 21 | silent | silent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 doe | amod |
| 22 | doe | doe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 walk | obj |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 fawn | cc |
| 24 | fawn | fawn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 doe | conj |
| 25 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 30 Isle | punct |
| 26 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 Isle | cc |
| 27 | on | on | ADP | _ | 30 Isle | case |
| 28 | Spirit | Spirit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 Isle | compound |
| 29 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 28 Spirit | punct |
| 30 | Isle | Isle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 51 heard | nsubj |
| 31 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 33 it | cc |
| 32 | near | near | ADP | _ | 33 it | case |
| 33 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 Isle | conj |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 moon | punct |
| 35 | under | under | ADP | _ | 39 moon | case |
| 36 | midnight | midnight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 moon | nmod:poss |
| 37 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 36 midnight | case |
| 38 | misty | misty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 moon | amod |
| 39 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 Isle | appos |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 seen | punct |
| 41 | Oft | Oft | PROPN | Number=Sing | 43 seen | nsubj |
| 42 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 43 seen | aux:pass |
| 43 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 39 moon | acl:relcl |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 mother | det |
| 45 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 spirit | nmod:poss |
| 46 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 45 mother | case |
| 47 | spirit | spirit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 seen | obj |
| 48 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 49 oft | punct |
| 49 | oft | oft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 Isle | conj |
| 50 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 51 heard | aux:pass |
| 51 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 shimmer | parataxis |
| 52 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 54 tune | nmod:poss |
| 53 | mournful | mournful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 54 tune | amod |
| 54 | tune | tune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 51 heard | obj |
| 55 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 shimmer | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shimmer | present | moonbeams | the maples on the lawn | still | sometimes property | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through maple=Location | ||
| 2 | walk | infinitive | the gloaming and the glimmer | the silent doe and fawn | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme doe=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | see | present · passive | Oft | the mother's spirit obj | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | hear | present · passive | Spirit Isle near gloaming | Oft's mournful tune obj | tree rules |
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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