Legends of the Northwest, Heyóka Wacípee [16]--the Giant's Dance., sentence 147
To the April sun and the April showers, In field and forest, the baby flowers Lift their golden faces and azure eyes; And wet with the tears of the winter-fairies, Soon bloom and blossom the emerald prairies, Like the fabled Garden of Paradise.
Who acts: baby flowers, Soon · What happens: lift, bloom, blossom, fable · To what, where: golden faces, April sun, emerald prairies
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 (baby flowers, Soon), 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 | To | to | ADP | _ | 4 sun | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 sun | det |
| 3 | April | April | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 sun | compound |
| 4 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 Lift | obl |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 showers | cc |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 showers | det |
| 7 | April | April | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 showers | compound |
| 8 | showers | shower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 sun | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 field | punct |
| 10 | In | in | ADP | _ | 11 field | case |
| 11 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 showers | conj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 forest | cc |
| 13 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 field | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 sun | punct |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 flowers | det |
| 16 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 flowers | compound |
| 17 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 Lift | nsubj |
| 18 | Lift | lift | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 faces | nmod:poss |
| 20 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 faces | amod |
| 21 | faces | face | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 Lift | obj |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 eyes | cc |
| 23 | azure | azure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 eyes | compound |
| 24 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 faces | conj |
| 25 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 27 wet | punct |
| 26 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 wet | cc |
| 27 | wet | wet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 Lift | parataxis |
| 28 | with | with | ADP | _ | 30 tears | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 tears | det |
| 30 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 wet | obl |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 fairies | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 fairies | det |
| 33 | winter | winter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 fairies | compound |
| 34 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 33 winter | punct |
| 35 | fairies | fairy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 tears | nmod |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 Soon | punct |
| 37 | Soon | Soon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 38 bloom | nsubj |
| 38 | bloom | bloom | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 Lift | parataxis |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 blossom | cc |
| 40 | blossom | blossom | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 Lift | conj |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 prairies | det |
| 42 | emerald | emerald | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 prairies | compound |
| 43 | prairies | prairie | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 blossom | obj |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 48 Garden | punct |
| 45 | Like | like | ADP | _ | 48 Garden | case |
| 46 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 48 Garden | det |
| 47 | fabled | fable | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 48 Garden | amod |
| 48 | Garden | Garden | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Lift | parataxis |
| 49 | of | of | ADP | _ | 50 Paradise | case |
| 50 | Paradise | Paradise | PROPN | Number=Sing | 48 Garden | nmod |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 Lift | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lift | present | the baby flowers | flowers's golden faces and azure eyes | the April sun and the April showers and field and forest | the fabled Garden of Paradise parataxis | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent face=Theme to sun=Destination | ||
| 2 | bloom | present | Soon | vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | blossom | present | the baby flowers not said here | the emerald prairies | vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location prairie=Theme | ||||
| 4 | fable | participle | tree rules |
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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