Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 1, sentence 45

He shook the plumes on his withered head, And the wind through his pale form whistled shrill.

Who acts: word, wind · What happens: shake, wither, whistle, form · To what, where: plumes, withered head

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 (word, wind), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 shook	nsubj
2	shook	shake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 plumes	det
4	plumes	plume	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 shook	obj
5	on	on	ADP	_	8 head	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 head	nmod:poss
7	withered	wither	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 head	amod
8	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 shook	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 whistled	punct
10	And	and	CCONJ	_	17 whistled	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 wind	det
12	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 whistled	nsubj
13	through	through	ADP	_	16 form	case
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 form	nmod:poss
15	pale	pale	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 form	amod
16	form	form	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 wind	nmod
17	whistled	whistle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 shook	conj
18	shrill	shrill	ADV	_	17 whistled	advmod
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 shook	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	shake	past	word	the plumes	word's withered head		vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent plume=Theme on head=Trajectory
2	wither	participle					vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	whistle	past	the wind through word's pale form			shrill property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	form		word				nom form «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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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🌲 Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 1, sentence 45

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Pragmatics

Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 1, sentence 45