Legends of the Northwest, The Mississippi., sentence 23
Till some spirit of the olden, mystic, weird, romantic days Shall emerge and pour her golden tales and legends through my lays.
Who acts: romantic days, Seal · What happens: emerge, pour, lay, tell · To what, where: golden tales · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (romantic days, Seal), 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 | Till | till | ADP | _ | 3 spirit | case |
| 2 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 3 spirit | det |
| 3 | spirit | spirit | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 6 olden | mark |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 olden | det |
| 6 | olden | olden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 spirit | appos |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 mystic | punct |
| 8 | mystic | mystic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 olden | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 weird | punct |
| 10 | weird | weird | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 olden | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 emerge | punct |
| 12 | romantic | romantic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 days | amod |
| 13 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 emerge | nsubj |
| 14 | Shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 emerge | aux |
| 15 | emerge | emerge | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 olden | parataxis |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 pour | cc |
| 17 | pour | pour | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 emerge | conj |
| 18 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 tales | nmod:poss |
| 19 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 tales | amod |
| 20 | tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 pour | obj |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 legends | cc |
| 22 | legends | legend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 tales | conj |
| 23 | through | through | ADP | _ | 25 lays | case |
| 24 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 lays | nmod:poss |
| 25 | lays | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 pour | advcl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 spirit | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | emerge | shall | romantic days | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | pour | infinitive | romantic days not said here | Seal's golden tales and legends | vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tale=Patient | ||||
| 3 | lay | present | romantic days not said here | my nmod:poss | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | tell | Seal | nom tale «communication intransitive»: 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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