Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 1, sentence 65

Wakâwa, the voice of the years that are gone Will follow thy feet like the shadow of death, Till the paths of the forest and desert lone Shall forget thy footsteps.

Who acts: years, Wakâwa, paths · What happens: be, follow, lone, forget, shadow · To what, where: feet, footsteps, death

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, Wakâwa, paths), 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	Wakâwa	Wakâwa	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 follow	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Wakâwa	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 voice	det
4	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 follow	nsubj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 years	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 years	det
7	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 voice	nmod
8	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 gone	nsubj
9	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 gone	cop
10	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 years	acl:relcl
11	Will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 follow	aux
12	follow	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
13	thy	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	14 feet	nmod:poss
14	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 follow	obj
15	like	like	ADP	_	17 shadow	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 shadow	det
17	shadow	shadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 follow	obl
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 death	case
19	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 shadow	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 paths	punct
21	Till	till	ADP	_	23 paths	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 paths	det
23	paths	path	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 lone	nsubj
24	of	of	ADP	_	26 forest	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 forest	det
26	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 paths	nmod
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 desert	cc
28	desert	desert	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 forest	conj
29	lone	lone	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 follow	advcl
30	Shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 forget	aux
31	forget	forget	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 lone	ccomp
32	thy	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	33 footsteps	nmod:poss
33	footsteps	footstep	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 forget	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 follow	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	the years		go property	tree rules
2	follow	future	Wakâwa	thy feet	like the shadow of death; the voice of the years nsubj	vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent foot=Theme
3	lone	past	the paths of the forest and desert			tree rules
4	forget	shall	the paths of the forest and desert not said here	thy footsteps		tree rules
5	shadow			death		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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🌲 Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 1, sentence 65

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 1, sentence 65