Legends of the Northwest, Heyóka Wacípee [16]--the Giant's Dance., sentence 148

The plum-trees, white with their bloom in May, Their sweet perfume on the vernal breeze Wide strew like the isles of the tropic seas, Where the paroquet chatters the livelong day.

Who acts: plum trees, paroquet, trees · What happens: strew, chatter, bloom, perfume · To what, where: vernal breeze

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 (plum trees, paroquet, trees), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 trees	det
2	plum	plum	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 trees	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 plum	punct
4	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 strew	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 white	punct
6	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 trees	amod
7	with	with	ADP	_	9 bloom	case
8	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 bloom	nmod:poss
9	bloom	bloom	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 white	obl
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 May	case
11	May	May	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 bloom	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 perfume	punct
13	Their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 perfume	nmod:poss
14	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 perfume	amod
15	perfume	perfume	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 trees	conj
16	on	on	ADP	_	19 breeze	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 breeze	det
18	vernal	vernal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 breeze	amod
19	breeze	breeze	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 perfume	nmod
20	Wide	wide	ADV	_	21 strew	advmod
21	strew	strew	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
22	like	like	ADP	_	24 isles	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 isles	det
24	isles	isle	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 strew	obl
25	of	of	ADP	_	28 seas	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 seas	det
27	tropic	tropic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 seas	amod
28	seas	sea	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 isles	nmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 chatters	punct
30	Where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	33 chatters	advmod
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 paroquet	det
32	paroquet	paroquet	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 chatters	nsubj
33	chatters	chatter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 seas	conj
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 day	det
35	livelong	livelong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 day	amod
36	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 chatters	obl:unmarked
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	21 strew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	strew	present	the plum trees and trees's sweet perfume on the vernal breeze			like the isles of the tropic seas; wide property	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme
2	chatter	present	the paroquet		day		vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	bloom		trees = tree			in May	nom bloom «process intransitive»: poss=agent in=obl
4	perfume		trees = tree	the vernal breeze			nom perfume «cognition transitive»: poss=agent on=place

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 148

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends of the Northwest, Heyóka Wacípee [16]--the Giant's Dance., sentence 148