Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 1, sentence 1
The sun sails high in his azure realms; Beneath the arch of the breezy elms The feast is spread by the murmuring river.
Who acts: sun, murmuring river · What happens: sail, spread · To what, where: azure realms, feast, arch
This is a sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Feast of the Virgins., part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sun, murmuring river), 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 | 2 sun | det |
| 2 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sails | nsubj |
| 3 | sails | sail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 sails | xcomp |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 realms | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 realms | nmod:poss |
| 7 | azure | azure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 realms | compound |
| 8 | realms | realm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 sails | obl |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 spread | punct |
| 10 | Beneath | beneath | ADP | _ | 12 arch | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 arch | det |
| 12 | arch | arch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 spread | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 elms | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 elms | det |
| 15 | breezy | breezy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 elms | amod |
| 16 | elms | elm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 arch | nmod |
| 17 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 feast | det |
| 18 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 spread | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 spread | aux:pass |
| 20 | spread | spread | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 sails | conj |
| 21 | by | by | ADP | _ | 24 river | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 river | det |
| 23 | murmuring | murmuring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 river | compound |
| 24 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 spread | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sails | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sail | present | the sun | sun's azure realms | high property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | spread | present · passive | the murmuring river | the feast | the arch of the breezy elms | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent subject=Theme beneath arch=Destination |
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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