Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 1, sentence 7

Wild rosebuds peep from their flowing hair, And a rose half-blown on the budding breast; And bright with the quills of the porcupine The moccasined feet of the maidens shine.

Who acts: Wild rosebuds, moccasined feet · What happens: peep, flow, blow, shine · To what, where: rose, budding breast, porcupine

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 (Wild rosebuds, moccasined feet), 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	Wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 rosebuds	amod
2	rosebuds	rosebud	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 peep	nsubj
3	peep	peep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	from	from	ADP	_	7 hair	case
5	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 hair	nmod:poss
6	flowing	flow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 hair	amod
7	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 peep	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 blown	punct
9	And	and	CCONJ	_	14 blown	cc
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 rose	det
11	rose	rose	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 blown	nsubj:pass
12	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	14 blown	compound
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 half	punct
14	blown	blow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 peep	conj
15	on	on	ADP	_	18 breast	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 breast	det
17	budding	budding	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 breast	compound
18	breast	breast	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 blown	obl
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 bright	punct
20	And	and	CCONJ	_	21 bright	cc
21	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 peep	parataxis
22	with	with	ADP	_	24 quills	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 quills	det
24	quills	quill	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 bright	obl
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 porcupine	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 porcupine	det
27	porcupine	porcupine	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 quills	nmod
28	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 feet	det
29	moccasined	moccasined	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 feet	amod
30	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 shine	nsubj
31	of	of	ADP	_	33 maidens	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 maidens	det
33	maidens	maiden	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 feet	nmod
34	shine	shine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 porcupine	acl:relcl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 peep	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	peep	present	Wild rosebuds			from rosebuds's flowing hair	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent from hair=Theme
2	flow	gerund					vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	blow	participle · passive		a rose	the budding breast	half compound	vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: subject=Patient
4	shine	present	the moccasined feet of the maidens	the porcupine not said here			vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent porcupine=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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🌲 Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 1, sentence 7

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 1, sentence 7