Legends of the Northwest, The Game of Ball. [2], sentence 5

Lo the rounded ankles and raven hair That floats at will on the wanton wind, And the round brown arms to the breezes bare, And breasts like the mounds where the waters meet, [4] And feet as fleet as the red deer's feet, And faces that glow like the full, round moon When she laughs in the luminous skies of June.

Who acts: rounded ankles, waters, faces, beauty · What happens: round, float, breast, meet, glow, laugh · To what, where: faces, wanton wind

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 (rounded ankles, waters, faces, beauty), 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	Lo	lo	INTJ	_	4 ankles	discourse
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 ankles	det
3	rounded	round	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 ankles	amod
4	ankles	ankle	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 floats	nsubj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 hair	cc
6	raven	raven	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 hair	amod
7	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ankles	conj
8	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 floats	nsubj
9	floats	float	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	at	at	ADP	_	11 will	case
11	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 floats	advcl
12	on	on	ADP	_	15 wind	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 wind	det
14	wanton	wanton	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 wind	compound
15	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 floats	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 bare	punct
17	And	and	CCONJ	_	25 bare	cc
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 arms	det
19	round	round	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 arms	amod
20	brown	brown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 arms	amod
21	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 bare	nsubj
22	to	to	ADP	_	24 breezes	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 breezes	det
24	breezes	breeze	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 arms	nmod
25	bare	bare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 floats	advcl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 breasts	punct
27	And	and	CCONJ	_	28 breasts	cc
28	breasts	breast	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 floats	conj
29	like	like	ADP	_	31 mounds	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 mounds	det
31	mounds	mound	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 breasts	obl
32	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	35 meet	advmod
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 waters	det
34	waters	water	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 meet	nsubj
35	meet	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 mounds	acl:relcl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 4	punct
37	[	[	PUNCT	_	38 4	punct
38	4	4	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	28 breasts	appos
39	]	]	PUNCT	_	38 4	punct
40	And	and	CCONJ	_	41 feet	cc
41	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 breasts	conj
42	as	as	ADP	_	43 fleet	case
43	fleet	fleet	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 breasts	obl
44	as	as	ADP	_	49 feet	case
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 deer	det
46	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 deer	amod
47	deer	deer	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 feet	nmod:poss
48	's	's	PART	_	47 deer	case
49	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 breasts	obl
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 faces	punct
51	And	and	CCONJ	_	52 faces	cc
52	faces	face	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 floats	obl
53	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	54 glow	nsubj
54	glow	glow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	52 faces	acl:relcl
55	like	like	ADP	_	60 moon	case
56	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	60 moon	det
57	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	60 moon	amod
58	,	,	PUNCT	_	57 full	punct
59	round	round	ADJ	Degree=Pos	60 moon	amod
60	moon	moon	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 glow	obl
61	When	when	SCONJ	_	63 laughs	mark
62	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	63 laughs	nsubj
63	laughs	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	54 glow	advcl
64	in	in	ADP	_	67 skies	case
65	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	67 skies	det
66	luminous	luminous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	67 skies	amod
67	skies	sky	NOUN	Number=Plur	63 laughs	obl
68	of	of	ADP	_	69 June	case
69	June	June	PROPN	Number=Sing	67 skies	nmod
70	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 floats	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	round	participle					vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	float	present	the rounded ankles and raven hair	faces	the wanton wind	That nsubj	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on wind=Trajectory
3	breast	present	the rounded ankles and raven hair not said here			like the mounds; as fleet; as the red deer's feet; 4 appos	vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	meet	present	the waters				vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	glow	present	faces			like the full round moon	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	laugh	present	beauty			in the luminous skies of June	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in sky=Theme

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 5

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Legends of the Northwest, The Game of Ball. [2], sentence 5