Legends of the Northwest, The Mississippi., sentence 15

Firs that fringed the mossy meadows ere the Mayflower braved the gales, Iron oaks that nourished bruin while the Vikings roamed the main, Crashing fall in broken ruin for the greedy marts of gain.

Who acts: Firs, Mayflower, Iron oaks, Vikings · What happens: fringe, ere, brave, nourish, roam, crash · To what, where: mossy meadows, gales, bruin, main Crashing fall, broken ruin

This is a sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Mississippi.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Firs, Mayflower, Iron oaks, Vikings), 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	Firs	fir	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 ere	nsubj
2	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 fringed	nsubj
3	fringed	fringe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Firs	acl:relcl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 meadows	det
5	mossy	mossy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 meadows	amod
6	meadows	meadow	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 fringed	obj
7	ere	ere	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Mayflower	det
9	Mayflower	Mayflower	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 braved	nsubj
10	braved	brave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 ere	ccomp
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 gales	det
12	gales	gale	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 braved	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 oaks	punct
14	Iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 oaks	compound
15	oaks	oak	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 gales	conj
16	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 nourished	nsubj
17	nourished	nourish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 oaks	acl
18	bruin	bruin	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 nourished	obj
19	while	while	SCONJ	_	22 roamed	mark
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 Vikings	det
21	Vikings	Viking	PROPN	Number=Plur	22 roamed	nsubj
22	roamed	roam	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 nourished	advcl
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 fall	det
24	main	main	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 fall	amod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 Crashing	punct
26	Crashing	crash	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	27 fall	amod
27	fall	fall	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 roamed	obj
28	in	in	ADP	_	30 ruin	case
29	broken	broken	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 ruin	amod
30	ruin	ruin	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 fall	nmod
31	for	for	ADP	_	34 marts	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 marts	det
33	greedy	greedy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 marts	amod
34	marts	mart	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 ruin	nmod
35	of	of	ADP	_	36 gain	case
36	gain	gain	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 marts	nmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 ere	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	fringe	past	Firs	the mossy meadows		tree rules
2	ere	past	Firs			tree rules
3	brave	past	the Mayflower	the gales and Iron oaks		vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gale=Theme
4	nourish	participle	Iron oaks	bruin		vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bruin=Patient
5	roam	past	the Vikings	the main Crashing fall	broken ruin for the greedy marts of gain	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme fall=Trajectory
6	crash	gerund				vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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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🌲 Legends of the Northwest, The Mississippi., sentence 15

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Pragmatics

Legends of the Northwest, The Mississippi., sentence 15