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Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 1, sentence 37

They found no trace in the forest land, They found no trail in the dew-damp grass, They found no track in the river sand, Where they thought Wiwâstè would surely pass.

Who acts: hunters, Wiwâstè · What happens: find, think, pass · To what, where: trace, forest land, trail, damp grass, track, river sand · 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 (hunters, Wiwâstè), 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

nsubjdetobjcasedetcompoundoblpunctnsubjconjdetobjcasedetcompoundpunctamodoblpunctnsubjparataxisdetobjcasedetcompoundoblpunctadvmodnsubjconjnsubjauxadvmodccomppunctrootTheyPRONfoundVERBnoDETtraceNOUNinADPtheDETforestNOUNlandNOUN,PUNCTTheyPRONfoundVERBnoDETtrailNOUNinADPtheDETdewNOUN-PUNCTdampADJgrassNOUN,PUNCTTheyPRONfoundVERBnoDETtrackNOUNinADPtheDETriverNOUNsandNOUN,PUNCTWhereADVtheyPRONthoughtVERBWiwâstèPROPNwouldAUXsurelyADVpassVERB.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1TheytheyPRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs2 foundnsubj
2foundfindVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
3nonoDETPronType=Neg4 tracedet
4tracetraceNOUNNumber=Sing2 foundobj
5ininADP_8 landcase
6thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art8 landdet
7forestforestNOUNNumber=Sing8 landcompound
8landlandNOUNNumber=Sing2 foundobl
9,,PUNCT_11 foundpunct
10TheytheyPRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs11 foundnsubj
11foundfindVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin2 foundconj
12nonoDETPronType=Neg13 traildet
13trailtrailNOUNNumber=Sing11 foundobj
14ininADP_19 grasscase
15thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art19 grassdet
16dewdewNOUNNumber=Sing18 dampcompound
17--PUNCT_16 dewpunct
18dampdampADJDegree=Pos19 grassamod
19grassgrassNOUNNumber=Sing11 foundobl
20,,PUNCT_22 foundpunct
21TheytheyPRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs22 foundnsubj
22foundfindVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin2 foundparataxis
23nonoDETPronType=Neg24 trackdet
24tracktrackNOUNNumber=Sing22 foundobj
25ininADP_28 sandcase
26thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art28 sanddet
27riverriverNOUNNumber=Sing28 sandcompound
28sandsandNOUNNumber=Sing22 foundobl
29,,PUNCT_32 thoughtpunct
30WherewhereADVPronType=Rel32 thoughtadvmod
31theytheyPRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs32 thoughtnsubj
32thoughtthinkVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin22 foundconj
33WiwâstèWiwâstèPROPNNumber=Sing36 passnsubj
34wouldwouldAUXVerbForm=Fin36 passaux
35surelysurelyADV_36 passadvmod
36passpassVERBVerbForm=Inf32 thoughtccomp
37..PUNCT_2 foundpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1findpasthunters = hunterno tracethe forest landvn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trace=Topic
2findpasthunters = hunterno trailthe damp grassvn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trail=Topic
3findpasthunters = hunterno trackthe river sandvn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent track=Topic
4think speech: otherpasthunters = huntervn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5passwouldWiwâstèsurely propertyvn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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