Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 1, sentence 35
The hunters fleet In vain pursue, and in vain they prowl, And lurk in the forest till dawn of day.
Who acts: hunters · What happens: fleet, prowl · To what, where: vain pursue, lurk, vain
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 (hunters), 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 hunters | det |
| 2 | hunters | hunter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 fleet | nsubj |
| 3 | fleet | fleet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | In | in | ADP | _ | 6 pursue | case |
| 5 | vain | vain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 pursue | amod |
| 6 | pursue | pursue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 fleet | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 prowl | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 prowl | cc |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 vain | case |
| 10 | vain | vain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 prowl | obl |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 prowl | nsubj |
| 12 | prowl | prowl | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 fleet | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 lurk | punct |
| 14 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 lurk | cc |
| 15 | lurk | lurk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 prowl | obj |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 forest | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 forest | det |
| 18 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 lurk | nmod |
| 19 | till | till | ADP | _ | 20 dawn | case |
| 20 | dawn | dawn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 forest | nmod |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 day | case |
| 22 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 dawn | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 fleet | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fleet | present | the hunters | vain pursue | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | prowl | present | hunters = hunter | lurk | vain | in the forest till dawn of day | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme lurk=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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