Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 1, sentence 112
The fox pups [60] creep from the mother's lair And leap in the light of the rising moon; And loud on the luminous moonlit lake Shrill the bugle notes of the lover loon; And woods and waters and welkin break Into jubilant song,--it is joyful June.
Who acts: fox, woods · What happens: pup, rise, break, be, light, note · To what, where: 60 creep, jubilant song, joyful June, rising moon, lover loon
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 (fox, woods), 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 fox | det |
| 2 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 pups | nsubj |
| 3 | pups | pup | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 7 creep | punct |
| 5 | 60 | 60 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 creep | nummod |
| 6 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 5 60 | punct |
| 7 | creep | creep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 pups | obl |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 lair | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 mother | det |
| 10 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 lair | nmod:poss |
| 11 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 10 mother | case |
| 12 | lair | lair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 creep | nmod |
| 13 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 leap | cc |
| 14 | leap | leap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 lair | conj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 light | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 light | det |
| 17 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 lair | nmod |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 moon | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 moon | det |
| 20 | rising | rise | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 moon | amod |
| 21 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 light | nmod |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 loud | punct |
| 23 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 loud | cc |
| 24 | loud | loud | ADV | _ | 3 pups | advmod |
| 25 | on | on | ADP | _ | 29 lake | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 lake | det |
| 27 | luminous | luminous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 lake | amod |
| 28 | moonlit | moonlit | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 lake | amod |
| 29 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 loud | obl |
| 30 | Shrill | Shrill | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 lake | flat |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 notes | det |
| 32 | bugle | bugle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 notes | compound |
| 33 | notes | note | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 lake | nmod |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 loon | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 loon | det |
| 36 | lover | lover | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 loon | compound |
| 37 | loon | loon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 notes | nmod |
| 38 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 45 break | punct |
| 39 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 45 break | cc |
| 40 | woods | wood | NOUN | Number=Plur | 45 break | nsubj |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 waters | cc |
| 42 | waters | water | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 woods | conj |
| 43 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 welkin | cc |
| 44 | welkin | welkin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 woods | conj |
| 45 | break | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 pups | parataxis |
| 46 | Into | into | ADP | _ | 48 song | case |
| 47 | jubilant | jubilant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 song | compound |
| 48 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 break | obl |
| 49 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 break | punct |
| 50 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 54 June | punct |
| 51 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 54 June | nsubj |
| 52 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 54 June | cop |
| 53 | joyful | joyful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 54 June | amod |
| 54 | June | June | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 pups | obl |
| 55 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 pups | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pup | present | the fox | 60 creep from the mother's lair in the light of the rising moon and leap | loud property | vn calve-28.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | rise | gerund | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | break | present | woods and waters and welkin | into jubilant song result | vn break-45.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Patient into song=Result | ||||
| 4 | is a | present | fox | joyful June | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | light | the rising moon | nom light «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 6 | note | the lover loon | nom note «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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