Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 1, sentence 84
When the whirling snows from the north descend, Shall wail and moan in the midnight wind.
Who acts: whirling · What happens: snow, descend, wail, moan · To what, where: north
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 (whirling), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 4 snows | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 whirling | det |
| 3 | whirling | whirling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 snows | nsubj |
| 4 | snows | snow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 descend | advcl |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 north | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 north | det |
| 7 | north | north | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 snows | obl |
| 8 | descend | descend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 wail | punct |
| 10 | Shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 wail | aux |
| 11 | wail | wail | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 descend | ccomp |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 moan | cc |
| 13 | moan | moan | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 wail | conj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 wind | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 wind | det |
| 16 | midnight | midnight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 wind | compound |
| 17 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 moan | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 descend | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | snow | present | the whirling | the north | vn weather-57 «It V PP.theme» | ||||
| 2 | descend | present | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | wail | shall | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | moan | infinitive | in the midnight wind | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in wind=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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