Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 1, sentence 115

Has she gone to the spirits and can it be That her beautiful face is the Virgin Star Peeping out from the door of her lodge afar, Or upward sailing the silver sea.

Who acts: Wiwâstè, heroine, beautiful face, Virgin Star · What happens: go, be, peep out, sail · To what, where: spirits, beautiful face, Virgin Star, silver sea

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 (Wiwâstè, heroine, beautiful face, Virgin 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	Has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 gone	aux
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 gone	nsubj
3	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 spirits	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 spirits	det
6	spirits	spirit	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 gone	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 Star	cc
8	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 face	aux
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 face	nsubj
10	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	14 face	cop
11	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	14 face	nsubj
12	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 face	nmod:poss
13	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 face	amod
14	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 Star	nsubj
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 Star	cop
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 Star	det
17	Virgin	Virgin	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 Star	compound
18	Star	Star	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 gone	conj
19	Peeping	peep	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	18 Star	acl
20	out	out	ADP	_	19 Peeping	compound:prt
21	from	from	ADP	_	23 door	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 door	det
23	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 Peeping	obl
24	of	of	ADP	_	27 afar	case
25	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 afar	nmod:poss
26	lodge	lodge	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 afar	compound
27	afar	afar	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 door	nmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 sailing	punct
29	Or	or	CCONJ	_	31 sailing	cc
30	upward	upward	ADV	_	31 sailing	advmod
31	sailing	sail	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 Star	conj
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 sea	det
33	silver	silver	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 sea	amod
34	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 sailing	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 gone	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go	present · perfect	Wiwâstè		the spirits		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to spirit=Initial_Location
2	is a	can	heroine	Wiwâstè's beautiful face		That nsubj; Wiwâstè nmod:poss	tree rules
3	is a	present	Wiwâstè's beautiful face	the Virgin Star			tree rules
4	peep out	gerund	the Virgin Star not said here			from the door of Wiwâstè's lodge afar	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent from door=Theme
5	sail	gerund	Wiwâstè's beautiful face not said here	the silver sea		upward property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme sea=Trajectory

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, The Feast of the Virgins., part 1, sentence 115

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 1, sentence 115