Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 1, sentence 32
Staggering he clutched the air and fell; His life-blood smoked on the trampled sand, And dripped from the knife in the virgin's hand.
What happens: stagger, clutch, fall, smoke, trample, drip · To what, where: air, life blood, trampled sand, knife
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: 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 | Staggering | stagger | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 clutched | nsubj |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 clutched | nsubj |
| 3 | clutched | clutch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 air | det |
| 5 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 clutched | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 fell | cc |
| 7 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 clutched | conj |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 blood | punct |
| 9 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 blood | nmod:poss |
| 10 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 blood | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 life | punct |
| 12 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 clutched | obl |
| 13 | smoked | smoke | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 blood | acl |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 sand | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 sand | det |
| 16 | trampled | trample | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 sand | amod |
| 17 | sand | sand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 smoked | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 dripped | punct |
| 19 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 dripped | cc |
| 20 | dripped | drip | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 clutched | conj |
| 21 | from | from | ADP | _ | 23 knife | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 knife | det |
| 23 | knife | knife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 dripped | obl |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 hand | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 virgin | det |
| 26 | virgin | virgin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 hand | nmod:poss |
| 27 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 26 virgin | case |
| 28 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 dripped | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 clutched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stagger | gerund | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 2 | clutch | past | the air | meteor's life blood obl; meteor nsubj | vn hold-15.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent air=Theme | ||||
| 3 | fall | past | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | smoke | participle | meteor's life blood not said here | the trampled sand | vn eat-39.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | trample | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 6 | drip | past | the knife | in the virgin's hand | vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP.theme V PP.source»: agent=Theme from knife=Source |
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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