Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 1, sentence 44
"She has followed the years that are gone," he said; "The spirits the words of the witch fulfill; For I saw the ghost of my father dead, By the moon's dim light on the misty hill.
Who acts: years, breast, spirits, moon · What happens: follow, be, say, fulfill, see, ghost · To what, where: visage, ghost, father, misty hill · 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 (years, breast, spirits, moon), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 followed | punct |
| 2 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 followed | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 followed | aux |
| 4 | followed | follow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 gone | advcl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 years | det |
| 6 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 gone | nsubj |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 gone | nsubj |
| 8 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 gone | cop |
| 9 | gone | gone | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 said | nsubj |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 gone | conj |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 fulfill | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 spirits | punct |
| 16 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 spirits | det |
| 17 | spirits | spirit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 fulfill | nsubj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 words | det |
| 19 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 fulfill | nsubj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 witch | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 witch | det |
| 22 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 fulfill | obl |
| 23 | fulfill | fulfill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 said | ccomp |
| 24 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 27 saw | punct |
| 25 | For | for | SCONJ | _ | 27 saw | mark |
| 26 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 27 saw | nsubj |
| 27 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 fulfill | ccomp |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 ghost | det |
| 29 | ghost | ghost | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 saw | obj |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 father | case |
| 31 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 father | nmod:poss |
| 32 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 ghost | nmod |
| 33 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 father | amod |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 light | punct |
| 35 | By | by | ADP | _ | 40 light | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 moon | det |
| 37 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 light | nmod:poss |
| 38 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 37 moon | case |
| 39 | dim | dim | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 light | amod |
| 40 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 saw | obl |
| 41 | on | on | ADP | _ | 44 hill | case |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 hill | det |
| 43 | misty | misty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 hill | amod |
| 44 | hill | hill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 light | nmod |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 gone | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow in a quote | present · perfect · passive | visage | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | the years | that nsubj; gone property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | breast | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | fulfill in a quote | infinitive | the spirits | of the witch; the words nsubj | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | see in a quote | past | breast | the ghost of my father | by the moon's dim light on the misty hill | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ghost=Stimulus | |||
| 6 | ghost in a quote | my father | nom ghost «cognition transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 7 | light in a quote | the moon | the misty hill | nom light «phenomenon transitive»: poss=agent on=place |
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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