Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 1, sentence 90

To the north--to the forests of fir and pine-- Led their stealthy steps on the winding trail, Till they saw the Lake of the Spirit [55] shine Through somber pines of the dusky dale.

Who acts: warriors · What happens: lead, see, step · To what, where: stealthy steps, winding trail, Lake, somber pines

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 (warriors), 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	To	to	ADP	_	3 north	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 north	det
3	north	north	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 Led	obl
4	--	--	PUNCT	_	7 forests	punct
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 forests	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 forests	det
7	forests	forest	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 north	conj
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 fir	case
9	fir	fir	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 forests	nmod
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 pine	cc
11	pine	pine	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 fir	conj
12	--	--	PUNCT	_	3 north	punct
13	Led	lead	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 steps	nmod:poss
15	stealthy	stealthy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 steps	amod
16	steps	step	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 Led	obj
17	on	on	ADP	_	20 trail	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 trail	det
19	winding	winding	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 trail	compound
20	trail	trail	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 Led	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 saw	punct
22	Till	till	SCONJ	_	24 saw	mark
23	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 saw	nsubj
24	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 Led	conj
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 Lake	det
26	Lake	Lake	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 saw	obj
27	of	of	ADP	_	29 Spirit	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 Spirit	det
29	Spirit	Spirit	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 Lake	nmod
30	[	[	PUNCT	_	31 55	punct
31	55	55	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	33 shine	nummod
32	]	]	PUNCT	_	31 55	punct
33	shine	shine	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 saw	obj
34	Through	through	ADP	_	36 pines	case
35	somber	somber	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 pines	amod
36	pines	pine	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 saw	obl
37	of	of	ADP	_	40 dale	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 dale	det
39	dusky	dusky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 dale	amod
40	dale	dale	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 pines	nmod
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 Led	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	lead	past		warriors's stealthy steps	the winding trail	to the north and the forests of fir and pine	vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent step=Theme to north=Destination
2	see	past	warriors = warrior	the Lake of the Spirit	somber pines of the dusky dale	55 shine obj	tree rules
3	step		warriors = warrior				nom step «act 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 90

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 1, sentence 90