Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 1, sentence 43
His broad breast heaved on his troubled soul, The shadow of grief o'er his visage stole Like a cloud on the face of the setting sun.
Who acts: broad breast, visage · What happens: heave, steal, shadow · To what, where: troubled soul, grief
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 (broad breast, visage), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 breast | nmod:poss |
| 2 | broad | broad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 breast | amod |
| 3 | breast | breast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 heaved | nsubj |
| 4 | heaved | heave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 soul | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 soul | nmod:poss |
| 7 | troubled | troubled | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 soul | amod |
| 8 | soul | soul | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 heaved | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 shadow | punct |
| 10 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 shadow | det |
| 11 | shadow | shadow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 soul | appos |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 grief | case |
| 13 | grief | grief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 shadow | nmod |
| 14 | o'er | o'er | SCONJ | _ | 17 stole | mark |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 visage | nmod:poss |
| 16 | visage | visage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 stole | nsubj |
| 17 | stole | steal | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 shadow | advcl |
| 18 | Like | like | ADP | _ | 20 cloud | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 cloud | det |
| 20 | cloud | cloud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 stole | obl |
| 21 | on | on | ADP | _ | 23 face | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 face | det |
| 23 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 cloud | nmod |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 sun. | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 sun. | det |
| 26 | setting | setting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 sun. | compound |
| 27 | sun. | sun. | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 face | nmod |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | heave | participle | rest's broad breast | rest's troubled soul | vn push-12 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | steal | past | rest's visage | like a cloud on the face of the setting sun. | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | shadow | grief | nom shadow «state transitive»: of=patient |
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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