Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 1, sentence 21
Her eyes flashed fire; Her proud lips quivered with queenly ire; Her hand to the Spirits she raised and said, And her sun browned cheeks were aflame with red: "I am pure!--I am pure as falling snow!
Who acts: eyes, Swift, sun, cheeks, Wiwâstè · What happens: flash, quiver, raise, say, brown, be · To what, where: fire, proud lips, Spirits, snow · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (eyes, Swift, sun, cheeks), 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 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 2 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 flashed | nsubj |
| 3 | flashed | flash | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 flashed | obj |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 8 lips | punct |
| 6 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 lips | nmod:poss |
| 7 | proud | proud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 lips | amod |
| 8 | lips | lip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 flashed | obl |
| 9 | quivered | quiver | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 lips | acl |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 ire | case |
| 11 | queenly | queenly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 ire | amod |
| 12 | ire | ire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 quivered | obl |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 hand | punct |
| 14 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 hand | nmod:poss |
| 15 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 lips | conj |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 Spirits | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Spirits | det |
| 18 | Spirits | spirit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 hand | nmod |
| 19 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 raised | nsubj |
| 20 | raised | raise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 Spirits | acl:relcl |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 said | cc |
| 22 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 raised | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 browned | punct |
| 24 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 browned | cc |
| 25 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 sun | nmod:poss |
| 26 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 browned | nsubj |
| 27 | browned | brown | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 flashed | conj |
| 28 | cheeks | cheek | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 aflame | nsubj |
| 29 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 aflame | cop |
| 30 | aflame | aflame | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 browned | ccomp |
| 31 | with | with | ADP | _ | 32 red | case |
| 32 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 aflame | obl |
| 33 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 37 pure | punct |
| 34 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 37 pure | punct |
| 35 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 37 pure | nsubj |
| 36 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 37 pure | cop |
| 37 | pure | pure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 browned | parataxis |
| 38 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 37 pure | punct |
| 39 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 42 pure | punct |
| 40 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 42 pure | nsubj |
| 41 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 42 pure | cop |
| 42 | pure | pure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 flashed | parataxis |
| 43 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 44 falling | mark |
| 44 | falling | fall | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 42 pure | advcl |
| 45 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 falling | obj |
| 46 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 flashed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | flash | past | Swift's eyes | fire | Swift's proud lips and Swift's hand to the Spirits obl | tree rules | |||
| 2 | quiver | participle | Swift's proud lips and Swift's hand to the Spirits not said here | with queenly ire | vn body_internal_states-40.6 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | raise | past | Swift | the Spirits not said here | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spirit=Theme | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | Swift not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | brown | past | Swift's sun | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | is | past | cheeks | with red; aflame property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | is in a quote | present | Wiwâstè | pure property | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | is in a quote | present | Wiwâstè | pure property | tree rules | ||||
| 9 | fall in a quote | gerund | Wiwâstè not said here | snow | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient snow=Result |
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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