Legends of the Northwest, The Game of Ball. [2], sentence 2

On icebound river and white robed prairie The diamonds gleamed in the flame of noon; But cold and keen were the breezes airy Wa-zi-ya [3] blew from his icy throne.

Who acts: breezes, airy zi ya, noon · What happens: robe, gleam, be, blow, flame · To what, where: diamonds, flame, airy zi ya, icebound river

This is a sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Game of Ball. [2]. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (breezes, airy zi ya, noon), 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 river	case
2	icebound	icebound	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 river	amod
3	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 ya	obl
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 prairie	cc
5	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 prairie	amod
6	robed	robe	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 prairie	amod
7	prairie	prairie	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 river	conj
8	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 diamonds	det
9	diamonds	diamond	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 prairie	conj
10	gleamed	gleam	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 diamonds	acl
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 flame	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 flame	det
13	flame	flame	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 gleamed	obl
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 noon	case
15	noon	noon	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 flame	nmod
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 cold	punct
17	But	but	CCONJ	_	18 cold	cc
18	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 river	conj
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 keen	cc
20	keen	keen	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 cold	conj
21	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 ya	cop
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 breezes	det
23	breezes	breeze	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 ya	nsubj
24	airy	airy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 ya	amod
25	Wa	Wa	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 zi	compound
26	-	-	PUNCT	_	25 Wa	punct
27	zi	zi	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 ya	compound
28	-	-	PUNCT	_	27 zi	punct
29	ya	ya	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 blew	nsubj
30	[	[	PUNCT	_	31 3	punct
31	3	3	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	29 ya	appos
32	]	]	PUNCT	_	31 3	punct
33	blew	blow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
34	from	from	ADP	_	37 throne	case
35	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 throne	nmod:poss
36	icy	icy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 throne	amod
37	throne	throne	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 blew	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	33 blew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	robe	participle					vn dress-41.1.1-1-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	gleam	participle		the diamonds not said here	the flame of noon		vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in flame=Location
3	is a	past	the breezes	airy zi ya	icebound river and white robed prairie and the diamonds	3 appos	tree rules
4	blow	past	airy zi ya			from ya's icy throne	vn split-23.2 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient from throne=Co-Patient
5	flame		noon				nom flame «process 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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🌲 Legends of the Northwest, The Game of Ball. [2], sentence 2

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends of the Northwest, The Game of Ball. [2], sentence 2