Legends of the Northwest, Heyóka Wacípee [16]--the Giant's Dance., sentence 128

[40] His bow unstrung and forgotten hung With his beaver hood and his otter quiver; He sat spell-bound by the artless grace Of her star-lit eyes and her moon-lit face.

Who acts: bow, star · What happens: unstring, forget, hang, sit, bind, lit · To what, where: 40, spell

This is a sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, Heyóka Wacípee [16]--the Giant's Dance.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bow, star), 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	[	[	PUNCT	_	2 40	punct
2	40	40	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	6 unstrung	obl
3	]	]	PUNCT	_	2 40	punct
4	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 bow	nmod:poss
5	bow	bow	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 unstrung	nsubj
6	unstrung	unstring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 hung	cc
8	forgotten	forget	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 hung	amod
9	hung	hang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 unstrung	conj
10	With	with	ADP	_	13 hood	case
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 hood	nmod:poss
12	beaver	beaver	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 hood	compound
13	hood	hood	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 hung	obl
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 quiver	cc
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 quiver	nmod:poss
16	otter	otter	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 quiver	compound
17	quiver	quiver	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 hood	conj
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 sat	punct
19	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 sat	nsubj
20	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 unstrung	conj
21	spell	spell	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 sat	obj
22	-	-	PUNCT	_	21 spell	punct
23	bound	bind	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 sat	xcomp
24	by	by	ADP	_	27 grace	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 grace	det
26	artless	artless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 grace	amod
27	grace	grace	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 bound	obl
28	Of	of	ADP	_	33 eyes	case
29	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 eyes	nmod:poss
30	star	star	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 lit	compound
31	-	-	PUNCT	_	30 star	punct
32	lit	lit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	33 eyes	amod
33	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 grace	nmod
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 face	cc
35	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 face	nmod:poss
36	moon	moon	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 lit	compound
37	-	-	PUNCT	_	36 moon	punct
38	lit	lit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	39 face	amod
39	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 eyes	conj
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 unstrung	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	unstring	past	star's bow	40		tree rules
2	forget	participle				tree rules
3	hang	past	star's bow not said here		with star's beaver hood and star's otter quiver	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	sit	past	star	spell		tree rules
5	bind	participle	star not said here		by the artless grace of bow's lit eyes and bow's lit face	vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
6	lit	participle			star compound	tree rules
7	lit	participle			moon compound	tree rules
8	quiver		star			nom quiver «feeling 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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🌲 Legends of the Northwest, Heyóka Wacípee [16]--the Giant's Dance., sentence 128

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends of the Northwest, Heyóka Wacípee [16]--the Giant's Dance., sentence 128